SILICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silicate mean? 

• SILICATE (noun)
  The noun SILICATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt or ester derived from silicic acid

  Familiarity information: SILICATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILICATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt or ester derived from silicic acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("silicate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

 Context examples 

This method revealed a complex exoplanetary atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

Specifically, it would be a cryovolcano — a volcano that erupts a liquid made of volatiles such as water, instead of silicates.

(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)

An occupation that involves the extraction of asbestos from naturally-occurring silicate deposits.

(Asbestos Mining, NCI Thesaurus)

One of a number of fibrous magnesium and calcium silicate minerals processed for thermal insulation and fireproofing.

(Asbestos, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology say the moon’s non-silicate sand is “electrically charged” and “resistant to motion.”

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

A natural clay-like mineral mixture of hydrated aluminum silicate containing magnesium, adsorbent Attapulgite (kaopectate) acts locally in the intestines to adsorb bacteria and toxins; reduce water loss; and treat diarrhea.

(Attapulgite, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation may be provided by contact with the glass tube or exposure to activators (e.g., ellagic acid, particulate silicates such as diatomaceous earth or kaolin) before addition of the calcium chloride.

(Partial Thromboplastin Time, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The team found that the atmosphere also contains clouds of iron and silicate dust.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

These non-silicate, granular materials can hold their electrostatic charges for days, weeks or months at a time under low-gravity conditions, said George McDonald, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who also co-authored the paper.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

Convection moves around the clouds of silicate and iron particles, which disaggregate and rain down into the interior.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)