silicate Definition
sili·cate (sil′i kit, -kāt′)
noun
a salt or ester derived from silica or a silicic acid
silicate Usage Examples
Preposition: of
alumina: The sandstones commonly contain grains of felspar - a complex silicate of alumina and an alkaline base.
Converse of object
- contain: However, above each silo in the west wall are blocked apertures that also contain silicates.
- include: These include silicate mixed with albumen, gelatine or stale beer.
Adjective modifier
- hydrous: Wanlockhead, richer in zinc ores, has a greater prevalence of secondary zinc species such as hemimorphite ( hydrous zinc silicate ).
- hydrated: For example a major class of IDPs and all of the carbon rich chondrites contain hydrated silicates.
- crystalline: The bottles are filled with molecular sieve material grade 542 crystalline aluminum silicate.
- other: The samples are mostly composed of granted minerals, e.g. , micas and other complex silicates.
- complex: Examples of such materials can be anything from NaCl ( table salt ) to clay ( a complex silicate ).
Modifies a noun
- tetrahedra: Looking only at a polygon view of the silicate tetrahedra, we can see each is isolated from the other.
- mineral: This method can be applied to identify the structure type of any silicate mineral.
- grain: A spectral feature near 10 microns is evidence for small amorphous silicate grains.
- glass: The second component to our work on glasses concerns the formation of silicate glasses.
- paint: Indeed this is the quality that most external silicate paints have.
- rock: The faster silicate rocks " weather " , the faster carbon is removed from the atmosphere.
Noun used with modifier
- magnesium: Outside the core is the mantle, composed largely of magnesium silicates.
- calcium: Calcium oxide reacts with silicon dioxide to give calcium silicate.
- aluminum: The aluminum silicates comprising asbestos are relatively benign if not in nanoscale form and not breathed in or contacted directly in nanoscale form.
- sodium: You might like to try growing sugar crystals, copper sulfate crystals, sodium silicate crystals, potassium permanganate crystals or iodine crystals.
- aluminum: The bottles are filled with molecular sieve material grade 542 crystalline aluminum silicate.
- iron: Pig iron is refined in a converter and then poured into molten iron silicate slag.
Browse dictionary entries near silicate
- ‹ silica glass
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- ‹ silic-
- ‹ silhouette
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- ‹ Silenus
- ‹ silently
- ‹ silent partner
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