silicate

See also: Silicate and silicaté

English

Etymology

From silic(on) +‎ -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sĭʹlĭkāt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪkeɪt/
• enPR: sĭʹlĭkət, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪkət/
• enPR: sĭʹlĭkĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlɪkɪt/
• 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

Derived terms

• aluminio-silicate
• arsenosilicate
• barium copper silicate
• bisilicate
• borosilicate
• calcium silicate
• calc silicate gneiss
• calc-silicate gneiss
• chain silicate
• chlorotetrafluorosilicate
• disilicate
• dodecaoxotetrasilicate
• dodecasilicate
• fluosilicate
• framework silicate
• hexasilicate
• hydrosilicate
• inosilicate
• island silicate
• metasilicate
• molybdosilicate
• monosilicate
• nanosilicate
• nonsilicate
• octasilicate
• pentasilicate
• polysilicate
• potassium aluminium silicate
• protosilicate
• ring silicate
• sheet silicate
• silicate planet
• silicatian
• silicatization
• tetraoxosilicate
• tetrasilicate
• titan-osilicate
• trisilicate
• tungstosilicate
• unisilicate
• zincosilicate

 

Related terms

• silica
• silicate board
• silicate cotton
• silicate paint
• silicon
• silicone

 

Translations

salt or mineral

• Asturian: silicatu m
• Catalan: silicat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硅酸鹽／硅酸盐 (zh) (guīsuānyán) (Mainland China)

• Czech: křemičitan m, silikát m
• Dutch: silicaat (nl) n
• Finnish: silikaatti (fi)
• French: silicate (fr) m
• German: Silikat (de) n
• Italian: silicato (it) m
• Japanese: 珪酸塩 (ja) (けいさんえん, keisan'en)
• Kazakh: силикат (silikat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: silikat n

  Nynorsk: silikat n

• Persian: سیلیکات (fa) (silikât)
• Polish: krzemian (pl) m
• Portuguese: silicato (pt) m
• Romanian: silicat (ro) m
• Russian: силика́т (ru) m (silikát)
• Spanish: silicato (es) m
• Swedish: silikat (sv) n
• Telugu: సిలికేటు (silikēṭu)
• Turkish: silikat (tr)

References

• silicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ciliates

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

silicate m (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) silicate

Further reading

• “silicate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.