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silicate (iou)



silicate noun. E19.
[from SILICA + -ATE1.]
A salt or ester of a silicic acid; any of the compounds regarded as formed from silica and other oxides, which include many rock-forming minerals and have a characteristic structure based on metal cations and SiO4 tetrahedra.