Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A salt of orthosilicic acid (H4SiO4). Zinc orthosilicate (Zn2SiO4 or 2ZnO. SiO2) is the mineral willemite: it is often called a unisilicate, since it has an oxygen ratio of 1:1.
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- noun chemistry any
salt orester oforthosilicic acid , (M+)4Si O 44− or Si(OR)4 - noun mineralogy any
silicate mineral , such asgarnet orolivine , in which the SiO4tetrahedra do not shareoxygen atoms with each other
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Examples
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It also had a million ton thermal storage unit using iron orthosilicate (copper slag).
OpEdNews - Diary: A Little Bit Of History: In The Days Of Cholera 2009
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Two important considerations are the carbon-oxygen and magnesium-silicon ratios of stars, which can affect whether a planet has certain magnesium- or silicon-loaded clay minerals such as magnesium silicate (MgSiO3), silicon dioxide (SiO2), magnesium orthosilicate (Mg2SiO4), and magnesium oxide (MgO).
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Lauritzen and his peers used an yttrium orthosilicate crystal doped with erbium ions to store light pulses on the single-photon level.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The new technique raises the efficiency to 69 per cent, using a solid-state device which stores data on ions in a crystal made of an exotic compound, yttrium orthosilicate.
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