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A salt of silicic acid. Note: In mineralogical chemistry the silicates include; the unisilicates or orthosilicates, salts of orthosilicic acid; the bisilicates or metasilicates, salts of metasilicic acid; the polysilicates or acid silicates, salts

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A salt of silicic acid. Note: In mineralogical chemistry the silicates include; the unisilicates or orthosilicates, salts of orthosilicic acid; the bisilicates or metasilicates, salts of metasilicic acid; the polysilicates or acid silicates, salts of the polysilicic acids; the basic silicates or subsilicates, in which the equivalent of base is greater than would be required to neutralize the acid; and the hydrous silicates, including the zeolites and many hydrated decomposition products.

Related words: (words related to SILICATE)

• SILICIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica; specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid. Silicic acid , an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si 4, very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stable salts;
• CHEMISTRY
  1. That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• ORTHOSILICIC
  Designating the form of silicic acid having the normal or highest number of hydroxyl groups.
• METASILICIC
  Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid. Note: The salts of metasilicic acid are often called bisilicates, in mineralogy, as Wollastonite . Metasilicic acid , a gelatinous substance,
• SILICICALCAREOUS
  Consisting of silica and calcareous matter.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• MINERALOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MACRO-CHEMISTRY
  The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro- chemistry.
• FLUOSILICIC
  Composed of, or derived from, silicon and fluorine. Fluosilicic acid, a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon, H2F6Si, obtained in solution in water as a sour fuming liquid, and regarded as the type of the fluosilicates; -- called also
• POLYSILICIC
  Of or pertaining to compounds formed by the condensation of two or more molecules of silicic acid. Polysilicic acid , any one of a series of acids formed by the condensation of two or more molecules of silicic acid, with elimination of water.
• ZOOCHEMISTRY; ZOOECHEMISTRY
  Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry.
• ALCHEMISTRY
  Alchemy.
• PHOTOCHEMISTRY
  The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
• GEOCHEMISTRY
  The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth. -- Ge`o*chem"ic*al , a. --Ge`o*chem"ist , n.
• PHYTOCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.
• EPSOM SALTS; EPSOM SALT
  Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at Epsom, England, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate
• HYDROFLUOSILICIC
  Pertaining to, or denoting, a compound consisting of a double fluoride of hydrogen and silicon; silicofluoric. See Silicofluoric.
• GLAUBER'S SALT; GLAUBER'S SALTS
  Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts." Note: It occurs naturally and abundantly in some mineral springs, and in many salt deposits, as
• BIOCHEMISTRY
  The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• THERMOCHEMISTRY
  That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.
• BLACK SALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.