silicate minerals

Silicate minerals are the most common type of mineral on earth.

They have frequently combined with each other to form common silicate minerals.

However, term can also be used to refer to a family of sheet silicate minerals.

The silicate minerals compose over 90% of the Earth's crust.

Asbestos is a set of six silicate minerals which occur naturally.

Note: this publication got delayed, as silicate minerals were being better understood.

They are a mixture of iron-nickel metal and silicate minerals.

This layer is made of rocks rich in magnesium silicate minerals.

Its crystal structure may allow it to replace silicon in silicate minerals.

Olivine and pyroxene make up most of the silicate minerals.

It is less useful for silicate minerals, most of which have a white streak and are too hard to powder easily.

They need to consume only small amounts of silicate minerals a month to sustain their functions.

This refers to the silicate minerals in them, which can be easily distinguished because of their relatively large grain size.

The non-silicates have great economic importance, as they concentrate elements more than the silicate minerals do.

Their silicate minerals have major and trace elements ratios similar to those in meteorites.

Faujasite is a mineral group in the zeolite family of silicate minerals.

In silicification, silicate minerals are released due to the weathering of rocks.

Dioptase and chrysocolla are the only relatively common copper silicate minerals.

In such reactions, pure water ionizes slightly and reacts with silicate minerals.

Silicate minerals are rarely sufficiently valuable to warrant extraction as ore.

Hornblende is a complex series of silicate minerals.

In meteorites it occurs with troilite and silicate minerals.

Many silicate minerals also have polymeric chain structures.

The most abundant are oxygen, accounting for 47%, and silicon, 28%, the reason being that the crust is mainly made up of silicate minerals.

Hydrolysis is a chemical weathering process affecting silicate minerals.