silicate
Sign in to saveAlso known as silicates
thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Structure of the orthosilicate (ion)|orthosilicate anion |250px
Research
60,271 papers- Clinical applications of calcium silicate-based materials: a narrative review.Australian dental journal · 2023
- Silicate bioceramics: from soft tissue regeneration to tumor therapy.Journal of materials chemistry. B · 2019
- Emerging silicate biomaterials in oral medicine.Biomaterials · 2026
- Calcium silicate-based drug delivery systems.Expert opinion on drug delivery · 2017
- Tricalcium silicate cement sealers: Do the potential benefits of bioactivity justify the drawbacks?Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2022
via PubMed
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Structural principles
- Isolated silicates
- Chains
- Sheets
- Framework
- Silicates with non-tetrahedral silicon
- Chemical properties
- Reactions
- Detection
- Zeolite formation and geopolymers polymerisation
- See also
- References
thumb|class=skin-invert-image|Structure of the orthosilicate (ion)|orthosilicate anion |250px
A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula , where . The family includes orthosilicate (), metasilicate (), and pyrosilicate (, ). The name is also used for any salt of such anions, such as sodium metasilicate; or any ester containing the corresponding chemical group, such as tetramethyl orthosilicate. The name "silicate" is sometimes extended to any anions containing silicon, even if they do not fit the general formula or contain other atoms besides oxygen; such as hexafluorosilicate . Most commonly, silicates are encountered as silicate minerals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “silicate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.