silicate
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A salt of silicic acid.
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Although brittle, silicate glass is extremely durable, and many examples of glass fragments exist from early glass-making cultures.
As with the Earth, the denser metal separated from silicate material and sank toward the center of the planetesimal, forming its core.
Clastic sedimentary rocks are composed of other rock fragments that were cemented by silicate minerals.
A wine glass Simple optical device: the magnifying glass Glass petri dish Other properties In the process of manufacture, silicate glass can be poured, formed, extruded and molded into forms ranging from flat sheets to highly intricate shapes.
Alternatively, when hit hard and directly, it shatters like a silicate glass.
At a depth of about convert, ringwoodite decomposes into silicate perovskite ((Mg,Fe)SiO 3 ) and ferropericlase ((Mg,Fe)O) in an endothermic reaction.