sorosilicate
[ sawr-oh-sil-i-kit, -keyt, sohr- ]
nounMineralogy.
any of the silicates in which each silicate tetrahedron shares one of its four oxygen atoms with a neighboring tetrahedron, the ratio of silicon to oxygen being two to seven.
Origin of sorosilicate
1- Compare cyclosilicate, inosilicate, nesosilicate, tektosilicate.
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