silicate
Syllables: sili·cate/ˈsɪlɪkət/
silicate noun: any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.
Noun
silicate (plural silicates)
silicate meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Persian
silicate in Tamil
- சிலிக்கேட்டு, சிலிக்கேற்று
silicate in Telugu
- salt or mineral
- సిలికేటు silikēṭu
silicate in Persian
- salt or mineral
- سیلیکات silikât
Examples of silicate in a sentence
- Silicated soap is a hard soap containing silicate of soda.
- The Asteroid Belt was formed from silicate and metal-rich, but ice-poor material.
- For metal dopants, the surfactant can be removed by calcining the greenbody, resulting in an anchored metal silicate.
Forms of silicate
| plural | silicates |
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Origin of silicate
From silicic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Words formed from silicate
- aluminio-silicate
- arsenosilicate
- barium copper silicate
- bisilicate
- borosilicate
- calcium silicate
- calc silicate gneiss
- calc-silicate gneiss
- chain silicate
- chlorotetrafluorosilicate
- disilicate
- dodecaoxotetrasilicate
- dodecasilicate
- fluosilicate
- framework silicate
- hexasilicate
- hydrosilicate
- inosilicate
- island silicate
- metasilicate
- molybdosilicate
- monosilicate
- nanosilicate
- nonsilicate
- octasilicate
- pentasilicate
- polysilicate
- potassium aluminium silicate
- protosilicate
- ring silicate
- sheet silicate
- silicate planet
- silicatian
- silicatization
- tetraoxosilicate
- tetrasilicate
- titanosilicate
- trisilicate
- tungstosilicate
- unisilicate
- vanadosilicate
- zincosilicate
Phrases with silicate
Questions about silicate
- What does silicate mean?
- Silicate means any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.
- What is silicate in Tamil?
- Silicate in Tamil is சிலிக்கேட்டு, சிலிக்கேற்று. See Silicate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is silicate?
- Silicate is a noun.
- How do you pronounce silicate?
- Silicate is pronounced /ˈsɪlɪkət/.
- What is the plural of silicate?
- The plural of silicate is silicates.
Words near silicate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: silicate (page history and authors); silicate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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