silicate
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1.
Mineralogy. any of the largest group of mineral compounds, as quartz, beryl, garnet, feldspar, mica, and various kinds of clay, consisting of SiO 2 or SiO 4 groupings and one or more metallic ions, with some forms containing hydrogen. Silicates constitute well over 90 percent of the rock-forming minerals of the earth's crust.
2.
Chemistry. any salt derived from the silicic acids or from silica.
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| a salt or ester of silicic acid, esp one of a large number of usually insoluble salts with polymeric negative ions having a structure formed of tetrahedrons of SiO4 groups linked in rings, chains, sheets, or three dimensional frameworks. Silicates constitute a large proportion of the earth's minerals and are present in cement and glass | |
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Medical Dictionary
silicate sil·i·cate (sĭl'ĭ-kāt', -kĭt)
n.
Any of numerous compounds containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals; a salt of silicic acid.
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Example sentences
They are too cool to have silicate clouds, but too warm for water clouds.
Rather than silicate rocks, they'd have carbonaceous ones.
Plagioclase feldspars are yet another silicate that contains considerable sodium or calcium.
The older they are the darker they become because they get coated with darker silicate material from meteoroids.
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