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n. Any of numerous compounds containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals; a salt of silicic acid.

n. Any of a large group of minerals, forming over 90 percent of the earth's crust, that consist of SiO2 or SiO4 groupings combined with one or more metals and sometimes hydrogen.

n. Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates

n. A salt of silicic acid.

n. A salt of silicic acid.

n. a salt or ester derived from silicic acid

"“Clay” as a mineral refers to a “cousin” of micas; that is, a silicate mineral containing structural sheets of silica tetrahedra tetrahedral arrangements of one Si and 4 Oxygen atoms, with the Oxygen atoms at the 4 corners."

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