different between silicate vs sodalite

English

Etymology

From silic(on) +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?ke?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• Hyphenation: sili?cate

Noun

silicate (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates

   Hypernym: compound

   Hyponyms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate, sodium silicate, sorosilicate, subsilicate, tectosilicate, titanosilicate

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Translations

References

• silicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ciliates

French

Noun

silicate m (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) silicate

English

Etymology

Named for the alkaline silicate composition.

Noun

sodalite (plural sodalites)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica, of the chemical composition of sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.

Related terms

• soda

Translations

See also

• silica group
• lazurite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Sodalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “sodalite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, isolated, solidate