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Synonyms for orthosilicate

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Noun

1. Island silicate — any silicate mineral, such as garnet or olivine, in which the SiO₄ tetrahedra do not share oxygen atoms with…

island silicate, nesosilicate

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any silicate mineral, such as garnet or olivine, in which the SiO₄ tetrahedra do not share oxygen atoms with each other.

Forms

Plural
orthosilicates → nesosilicates, tetraoxosilicates…

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Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

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12 letters
nesosilicate