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Definition of Silicates
1. silicate [n] - See also: silicate
Medical Definition of Silicates
1. The generic term for salts derived from silica or the silicic acids. They contain silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, and may contain hydrogen. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silicates
Literary usage of Silicates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, William Ebenezer Ford (1922)
"silicates The silicates are in part strictly anhydrous, in part hydrous, ...
-Furthermore, a large number of the silicates yield more or less water upon ..."
2. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"silicates The silicates are the most important rock-forming minerals, ... Many of
the silicates are complex in composition, and the chemical formulae for ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1917)
"The natural and artificially prepared silicates may be grouped under two classes: 1
... silicates not decomposed by acids. The minerals datolite, natrolite, ..."
4. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"The natural and artificially prepared silicates may be grouped under two classes: 1
... silicates not decomposed by acids. The minerals datolite, natrolite, ..."
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