Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately...
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Silicate mineral paints or mineral colors are paint coats with mineral binding agents. Two relevant mineral binders play a role in the field of colors:...
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Most commonly, silicates are encountered as silicate minerals. For diverse manufacturing, technological, and artistic needs, silicates are versatile materials...
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the silicates Ca xMg yFe 2-x-ySiO 4, the olivine group. Besides the essential chemical composition and crystal structure, the description of a mineral species...
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Talc (redirect from Magnesium Silicate)
Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Talc in powdered form, often combined...
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Enhanced weathering (redirect from Carbon mineralization)
weathering. Carbonate and silicate minerals are examples of minerals affected by carbonation weathering. When silicate or carbonate minerals are exposed to rainwater...
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Andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite are the principal aluminium silicate minerals. The triple point of the three polymorphs is located at a temperature...
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Mafic (redirect from Mafic mineral)
A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron. Most mafic minerals are dark in color, and common rock-forming...
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medium. Mineral wool is also known as mineral cotton, mineral fiber, man-made mineral fiber (MMMF), and man-made vitreous fiber (MMVF). Specific mineral wool...
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change from spinel structure minerals with an olivine composition to silicate perovskite with ferropericlase. Natural silicate perovskite was discovered...
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of non-silicate minerals – List of IMA recognized minerals and groupings Classification of silicate minerals – List of IMA recognized minerals and groupings...
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Sodium silicate is a generic name for chemical compounds with the formula Na 2xSi yO 2y+x or (Na 2O) x·(SiO 2) y, such as sodium metasilicate (Na 2SiO...
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Quartz (redirect from Citrine (mineral))
structurally as a framework silicate mineral and compositionally as an oxide mineral. Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust...
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Feldspathoid (category Silicate mineral stubs)
Hauyne – Silicate mineral Lazurite – Alumino-silicate mineral whose blue colour is due to a sulfide species and not copper Nosean – tectosilicate mineralPages...
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Zirconium silicate, also zirconium orthosilicate, ZrSiO4, is a chemical compound, a silicate of zirconium. It occurs in nature as zircon, a silicate mineral. Powdered...
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Calcium silicate can refer to several silicates of calcium including: 2CaO·SiO2, larnite (Ca2SiO4) 3CaO·SiO2, alite or (Ca3SiO5) 3CaO·2SiO2, (Ca3Si2O7)...
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Jadarite (redirect from Sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide)
Jadarite is a white, earthy monoclinic silicate mineral, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide (LiNaSiB3O7(OH) or Na2OLi2O(SiO2)2(B2O3)3H2O). Jadarite...
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Asbestos (redirect from Mineral asbestos)
is a group of naturally occurring, toxic, carcinogenic and fibrous silicate minerals. There are six types, all of which are composed of long and thin fibrous...
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Danburite (category Silicate mineral stubs)
calcium boron silicate mineral with a chemical formula of CaB2(SiO4)2. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 to 7.5 and a specific gravity of 3.0. The mineral has an orthorhombic...
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called ematille, Indian bloodstones, or simply bloodstones) are aggregate minerals, and cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz that occurs mostly as jasper (opaque)...
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Topaz (category Aluminium minerals)
Topaz is a silicate mineral made of aluminum and fluorine with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F, OH)2. It is used as a gemstone in jewelry and other adornments...
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Cumulate rock (section Silicate mineral cumulates)
mineral deposits found in ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions. Silicate mineral cumulates Oxide mineral cumulates Sulfide melt cumulates Silicate minerals...
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Chernobylite (category Silicate mineral stubs)
Chernobylite is a technogenic compound, a crystalline zirconium silicate with a high (up to 10%) content of uranium as a solid solution. It was discovered...
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Copper silicate may refer to any silicate of copper generally; more specifically: Minerals Apachite, a copper silicate mineral with a general formula...
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gemstones including Topaz, a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine Chrysoberyl, an aluminate of beryllium Zircon, a mineral belonging to the group of...
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the classification of minerals (silicates) and includes mostly International Mineralogical Association (IMA) recognized minerals and its groupings. This...
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Zircon (redirect from Hyacinth (mineral))
-kən/) is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates and is a source of the metal zirconium. Its chemical name is zirconium(IV) silicate, and its...
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Minerals are minerals which contain a borate anion group. The borate (BO3) units may be polymerised similar to the SiO4 unit of the silicate mineral class...
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Kaolinite (category Aluminium minerals)
-lih-; also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2Si2O5(OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica...
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Onyx is the parallel-banded variety of chalcedony, a silicate mineral. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the...
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