Definitions for silicates

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silicates sil·i·cate

Spelling: [sil-i-kit, -keyt]

IPA: /ˈsɪl ɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt/

Silicates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 440 anagrams from letters in silicates (aceiilsst).

Definitions for silicates

noun

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.

Origin of silicates

First recorded in 1805-15; silic(a) + -ate²

Examples for silicates

silicates, carbonates, sulphides, and sulphates are the most abundant salts.

This well-known substance is essentially a mixture of silicates with an excess of silica or silicic acid.

They are silicates of lime and magnesia usually with aluminum and iron.

It is important to note one peculiarity about the solubility of silicates.

Agalite and talc, which are silicates of magnesia, are also used.

Is there potash and magnesia and silicates in the soil here?

Should borates or silicates be present it is possible to express in terms of these.

This is especially true of the limestone, which may be changed completely to solid masses of quartz and silicates.

The other was a radical change in the formula of the silicates.

A chain-reacting process was now spreading through the silicates and other components of Titan's crust.