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n. (plural of silicate English)
Usage examples of "silicates".
The rock underfoot was composed of yellowish orange silicates, sprinkled in protected cracks and rills with druzy calcite and quartz.
They discussed the article on polymer extrusions from alien silicates, he studied the c-v drive specs yet another time, relaxed over a coffee while the two worked a crossword puzzle in Deltan symbology, and then he bade her a fond goodnight and went to bed again.
Now he saw that where his scrabbling feet had kicked away the adhering granules and accumulated cupric silicates, something black and shiny lay underneath.
In the depths of punctured vugs, needlelike clusters of fragile silicates and bladed arsenates sparkled with the promise of new combinations of elements.
Some marvel of internal chemistry allowed the animal to sprout cupric silicates from its skin.
They were of glass, he saw a moment later, a towering range formed by extrusion of vast masses of molten silicates from the planet.
Their unlikely specimens were analyzed in the chemical laboratory and reported to be silicates of various kinds, much the same as the mustard sands.
Plus the heavy metals, silicates, and other useful materials in their cores.
Ferrol found quiet satisfaction in the feet that the dust, while loaded with strange and exotic silicates, contained not a single scrap of gold, platmium, or iridium.