“…Using high-temperature X-ray analysis, Sedykh et al [136] determined that the first thermal arrest corresponds to a transition from amorphous silica to low-cristobalite, and the second one to a transition to low-quartz. However, Krug et al [137] have shown that, depending on the crystalline form of SiO 2 and the possibility for SiF 4 to escape or not the system, NaF can react partially with SiO 2 to form sodium silicates. Krug et al In an open system, fine crystalline SiO 2 powder reacts with NaF to form Na 2 Si 2 O 5 and Na 2 SiO 3 , but no reaction was observed by Krug et al with amorphous SiO 2 or low-quartz, whereas Na 2 Si 2 O 5 was observed when cristobalite was used.…”