silicate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From silic(on) + -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: sĭʹlĭkāt, IPA(key): /ˈsɪlɪkeɪt/
- enPR: sĭʹlĭkət, IPA(key): /ˈsɪlɪkət/
- enPR: sĭʹlĭkĭt, IPA(key): /ˈsɪlɪkɪt/
- Hyphenation: sili‧cate
Noun
[edit]silicate (plural silicates)
- (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates
- Hypernym: compound
- Hyponyms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate, sodium silicate, sorosilicate, subsilicate, tectosilicate, titanosilicate
Derived terms
[edit]- aluminio-silicate
- arsenosilicate
- barium copper silicate
- bisilicate
- borosilicate
- calcium silicate
- calc silicate gneiss
- calc-silicate gneiss
- chain silicate
- chlorotetrafluorosilicate
- disilicate
- dodecaoxotetrasilicate
- dodecasilicate
- fluosilicate
- framework silicate
- hexasilicate
- hydrosilicate
- inosilicate
- island silicate
- metasilicate
- molybdosilicate
- monosilicate
- nanosilicate
- nonsilicate
- octasilicate
- pentasilicate
- phyllo-decaoxotetrasilicate
- polysilicate
- potassium aluminium silicate
- protosilicate
- ring silicate
- sheet silicate
- silicate planet
- silicatian
- silicatization
- tetraoxosilicate
- tetrasilicate
- titan-osilicate
- trisilicate
- tungstosilicate
- unisilicate
- zincosilicate
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]salt or mineral
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References
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[edit]French
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Noun
[edit]silicate m (plural silicates)
Further reading
[edit]- “silicate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.