sorosilicate

[ sawr-oh-sil-i-kit, -keyt, sohr- ]

nounMineralogy.
  1. 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
<Greek sōró(s) heap + silicate

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