Orthosilicate vs Neosilicate - What's the difference?
orthosilicate | neosilicate |
(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
(chemistry) any simple silicate mineral in which the SiO4 tetrahedra are isolated and have metal ions as neighbours