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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

규산염

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gyusan-yeom

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Silicate/ˈsɪl.ɪ.keɪt/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"지각은 주로 규산염 광물로 이루어져 있다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A salt or ester derived from a silicic acid, typically containing anions consisting of silicon and oxygen.

    "Granite is primarily composed of various quartz and silicate minerals."
  2. 2

    Any of a large group of minerals forming the predominant part of the Earth's crust and mantle, characterized by a tetrahedron of silicon and oxygen.

    "Microscopic analysis of the soil revealed a high concentration of complex silicates."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the modern chemical vocabulary, combining the Latin 'silex' (flint, hard stone) with the chemical suffix '-ate' used to denote salts of oxyacids. The term emerged in the early 19th century as mineralogists and chemists systematized the classification of rock-forming minerals containing silicon and oxygen.

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