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Orthosilicate vs Inosilicate - What's the difference?

orthosilicate | inosilicate |

As nouns the difference between orthosilicate and inosilicate

is that orthosilicate is while inosilicate is (chemistry|mineralogy) any silicate having interlocking chains of silicate tetrahedra.

orthosilicate

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia orthosilicate)
  • (chemistry) any salt or ester of orthosilicic acid, (M+)4Si]][[oxygen, O44− or Si(OR)4
  • (mineralogy) any silicate mineral, such as garnet or olivine, in which the SiO4 tetrahedra do not share oxygen atoms with each other

    • inosilicate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry, mineralogy) any silicate having interlocking chains of silicate tetrahedra