Colloidal silica and production method therefor

Abstract

The present invention provides colloidal silica that exhibits excellent abrasiveness and contains, with high purity, deformed silica particles with excellent compactness and a large amount of alkoxy groups per unit area; the invention also provides a method for producing the colloidal silica in a simple manner with reduced costs. The invention provides colloidal silica containing silica particles having a bent structure and/or a branched structure, wherein the silica particles have a particle density of 1.95 or more, the silica particles have a ratio (m/n) of the content of alkoxy groups m (ppa) to the average primary particle size n (nm) of 200 or more, and the silica particles having a bent structure and/or a branched structure are present in an amount of 15% or more based on the number of particles in a given field of view as observed with a scanning electron microscope at 200,000-times magnification.

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