Associations to the word «Orthosilicate»

Wiktionary

ORTHOSILICATE, noun. (chemistry) any salt or ester of orthosilicic acid, (M+)4SiO44− or Si(OR)4
ORTHOSILICATE, noun. (mineralogy) any silicate mineral, such as garnet or olivine, in which the SiO4 tetrahedra do not share oxygen atoms with each other

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