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A compound containing silicon–oxygen structural units, especially one important in minerals, rock, or glass.
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- silicate minerals
- silicate glass
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Silicate minerals dominated the exposed rock.
The laboratory compared the silicate glass with the earlier composite.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular silicate; plural silicates. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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