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- noun Plural form of
phyllosilicate .
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Examples
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Mr. COWEN: To one of these interesting places where they have found these what they call phyllosilicates, which are really clays that have been formed in the presence of water.
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In at least nine, they found clays and clay-like minerals called phyllosilicates, or other hydrated silicates that form in wet environments on the surface or underground.
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He explained that these instruments had revealed clay-type minerals called phyllosilicates
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Many of these exist in the form of hydrated clay minerals known as phyllosilicates, and indicate that the planet's southern hemisphere was once much warmer and wetter than it is today.
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We detected for the first time a type of mineral called phyllosilicates on the surface of
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In at least nine, they found clays and clay-like minerals called phyllosilicates, or other hydrated silicates that form in wet environments on the surface or underground.
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In at least nine, they found clays and clay-like minerals called phyllosilicates, or other hydrated silicates that form in wet environments on the surface or underground.
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In at least nine, they found clays and clay-like minerals called phyllosilicates, or other hydrated silicates that form in wet environments on the surface or underground.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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But we'd now like to go to a place where these phyllosilicates, as they call them, have really been exposed by big impact craters.
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The visual said finegrained schist with phyllosilicates all the way down.
Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994
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