silicate
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editsilicate (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
editTranslations
editsalt or mineral
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References
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Noun
editsilicate m (plural silicates)
Further reading
edit- “silicate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.