Question 315 (part 2) · LDEK · Prosthodontic materials

Etching with 9.5% hydrofluoric acid does not lead to forming microretention in case of:

  1. A. ceramics based on aluminum oxide and zircon dioxide.
  2. B. ceramics based on aluminum oxide and lithium disilicate.
  3. C. feldspathic and zircon dioxide.
  4. D. leucite and feldspathic.
  5. E. lithium disilicate and glass.
Hint

HF etching dissolves the glassy phase; which ceramics are polycrystalline with almost no glass?

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