1.0 2010-04-08 22:11:24 UTC 2025-11-19 00:48:51 UTC FDB014682 Silica gel It is used in foods as a colouring adjunct, a defoaming agent and an anticaking agent Silica gel is a granular, vitreous, highly porous form of silica (FDB014375) made synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite its name, silica gel is a solid. Silica gel H6OSi 50.1325 50.018791347 hydrate silane hydrate silane 63231-67-4 O.[SiH4] InChI=1S/H2O.H4Si/h1H2;1H4 IMJRKWHUYBZDFD-UHFFFAOYSA-N belongs to the class of inorganic compounds known as metalloid oxides. These are inorganic compounds containing an oxygen atom of an oxidation state of -2, in which the heaviest atom bonded to the oxygen is a metalloid. Metalloid oxides Inorganic compounds Mixed metal/non-metal compounds Metalloid organides Metalloid oxides Inorganic oxides Inorganic salts Metalloid salts Inorganic metalloid salt Inorganic oxide Inorganic salt Metalloid oxide logp -1.3 ChemAxon pka_strongest_acidic 15.7 ChemAxon pka_strongest_basic -1.8 ChemAxon iupac hydrate silane ChemAxon average_mass 50.1325 ChemAxon mono_mass 50.018791347 ChemAxon smiles O.[SiH4] ChemAxon formula H6OSi ChemAxon inchi InChI=1S/H2O.H4Si/h1H2;1H4 ChemAxon inchikey IMJRKWHUYBZDFD-UHFFFAOYSA-N ChemAxon polar_surface_area 0 ChemAxon refractivity 3.2 ChemAxon polarizability 3.12 ChemAxon rotatable_bond_count 0 ChemAxon acceptor_count 0 ChemAxon donor_count 0 ChemAxon physiological_charge 0 ChemAxon formal_charge 0 ChemAxon Specdb::MsMs 87846 Specdb::MsMs 87847 Specdb::MsMs 87848 Specdb::MsMs 150447 Specdb::MsMs 150448 Specdb::MsMs 150449