phyllosilicate

English

Etymology

phyllo- +‎ silicate

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: phyllo‧sili‧cate

Noun

phyllosilicate (usually uncountable, plural phyllosilicates)

(mineralogy) Any silicate mineral having a crystal structure of parallel sheets of silicate tetrahedra
Synonym: sheet silicate

Hypernyms

silicate

Translations

type of silicate

Finnish: fyllosilikaatti

Spanish: filosilicato (es) m

References

phyllosilicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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