silicate mineral

rock-forming minerals with predominantly silicate anions

AI overview

Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals that contain silicate anions (negatively charged silicon and oxygen compounds) as their main component. They matter because they make up the majority of rocks in Earth's crust and are essential to understanding geology and the materials that form the planet we live on.

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Encyclopedic overview

Lithium aluminium silicate mineral spodumene

Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately 90 percent of Earth's crust.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “silicate mineral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.