How to Use ultrapure in a Sentence
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Low-iron glass is made from ultrapure sand that is low in iron oxide.
—Aki Ishida, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
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The experiment uses 10 tonnes of ultrapure liquid xenon to look for tiny flashes of light produced when particles interact with xenon atoms.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
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Silicon Wafers The ultrapure silicon is made up of many crystals at different orientations.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
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Manufacturers create fiber optic silicon dioxide, called silica, by chemically reacting gases that contain silicon with oxygen, leading to an ultrapure glass.
—John Ballato, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
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In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled cavern filled with about 7,000 tons of ultrapure water that glows as blue as wiper fluid in the light.
—James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
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