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inosilicate

or chain silicate

Any of a class of inorganic compounds that have structures characterized by silicate tetrahedrons (a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron) arranged in chains. Two of the oxygen atoms of each tetrahedron are shared with other tetrahedrons, forming a chain that is potentially infinite in length. Mineral examples include the pyroxenes and the amphiboles.

inosilicate [¦in·ō′sil·ə‚kāt]

(geology)

A class or structural type of silicate in which the SiO₄tetrahedrons are linked together by the sharing of oxygens to form linear chains of indefinite length.

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