different between silicate vs benitoite

English

Etymology

From silic(on) +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?ke?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• enPR: s??l?k?t, IPA^(key): /?s?l?k?t/
• Hyphenation: sili?cate

Noun

silicate (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates

   Hypernym: compound

   Hyponyms: aluminium silicate, aluminum silicate, aluminomagnesian silicate, aluminosilicate, bismuth silicate, borophosphosilicate, calcium magnesium silicate, cerous silicate, cyclosilicate, inosilicate, magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate, magnesium silicate, neosilicate, orthosilicate, phosphosilicate, phyllosilicate, pyrosilicate, sodium silicate, sorosilicate, subsilicate, tectosilicate, titanosilicate

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References

• silicate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

silicate m (plural silicates)

1. (inorganic chemistry) silicate

English

Etymology

San Benito County, California, where it can be found, +? -ite.

Noun

benitoite (plural benitoites)

1. (mineralogy) A rare hard blue silicate mineral found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite.

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Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Benitoite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “benitoite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.