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Silicates
Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates
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Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates
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| aluminonoun | — |
| siliceous | (chemistry) Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling silica or silicates. |
| silicanoun | Silicon dioxide. |
| siliciumnoun | (obsolete) The chemical element silicon. |
| mineralsnoun | (euphemistic, slang, dated) Testicles, balls, especially in the figurative sense of nerve or courage. |
| silicificationnoun | (geology) Impregnation with silica; petrification. |
| silicicnoun | of, related to, or derived from silica |
| silicious | Alternative spelling of siliceous. [(chemistry) Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling silica or silicates.] |
| silicotic | Of, relating to, or affected with silicosis. |
| silicified | Impregnated with silica; petrified. |
| aluminosilicatenoun | (inorganic chemistry) Any of many silicate minerals, such as feldspar and zeolite, in which a proportion of the Si⁴⁺ ions are replaced by Al³⁺, the excess negative charge being balanced by extra sodium, potassium or calcium ions. |
| sulphidesnoun | A kind of clear marble with a small statuette or figure inside. |
| mineralogicalnoun | Relating to mineralogy. |
| silica gelnoun | (chemistry) A granular, porous form of silica made synthetically from sodium silicate and used as a desiccant. |
| silanesnoun | In organosilicon chemistry, silanes are a diverse class of charge-neutral organic compounds with the general formula . |
| crystallitesnoun | A small region of a solid that consists of a single crystal; a grain. |
| lithologiesnoun | (uncountable) The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification. |
| limonitenoun | (mineralogy) Any of several natural hydrous iron oxides; often a mixture of goethite and hemite with clays and manganese oxide. |
| silicon dioxidenoun | (chemistry) A hard glassy mineral, SiO₂, occurring as quartz, sand, opal etc. Informally known as silica. |
| mineralogynoun | (petrology) The branch of petrology that studies minerals. |
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