How to Use silicate in a Sentence

silicate

noun

• At those speeds, the silicate would likely turn to glass.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2019
• Hsu’s team looked at the ice grains and found that there’s significant amounts of silicate, too.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2018
• That dust is actually a mix of grease, soot and silicate sand.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• Slate, along with sandstone, quartzite, soapstone and granite, is in the other big group, with stones composed mostly of silicates, such as quartz and feldspar.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• Kohoutek also marked the first direct detection of methyl cyanide, hydrogen cyanide and silicates in a comet.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• The analyses suggested that the boundary researchers had previously identified as the top of the core was in fact a layer of molten silicate.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• Most of the nuggets inside Allende were darker, rich in glassy silicate minerals that form when molten liquid cools rapidly.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2017
• The hunk of nickel, iron and silicate is a relic from the earliest days of the solar system, a byproduct of the massive cloud of gas and dust that formed 4.6 billion years ago and eventually led to us.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2023
• The presolar silicate grains inside the clasts contained significant amounts of the isotope Carbon-13.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023
• From a perspective of science, the material is a clever mesh of silicates with a dash of fluorine secret sauce.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 4 July 2018
• Then there's the exoplanet 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth likely to host lava flows on its surface while rain made of silicates falls like glass shards.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
• Calcium silicate is found in other forms, including wollastonite in the crust and breyite in the middle and lower regions of the mantle.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
• Higher still will be the densities of rocky worlds made principally of silicates.
  — The Economist, 3 Aug. 2019
• Her team measured its light spectrum, which looked suspiciously similar to that of silicates found on the moon, and not on asteroids.
  — WIRED, 1 Nov. 2023
• But the increased acidity seemed to reduce the effectiveness of the sodium silicate.
  — John Schwartz, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• If the planet followed similar patterns to the early Earth, much of that carbon dioxide would have been absorbed by silicate rocks and locked into the surface over the course of 3 billion years.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Sep. 2019
• Then gas and elements formed into a flat planetary disk around the sun and that included hydrogen, ice, iron and silicates.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
• Volcanic ash is heavy in silicates, which have a melting temperature close to 2,000 degrees.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2019
• That’s the iron silicate minerals epidote and chlorite.
  — Peter Hessler, National Geographic, 25 July 2016
• When a plane ejects chaff, the fibers – made of glass silicate with an aluminum coating – create a radar-reflective cloud that simulates aircraft and creates false targets.
  — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2022
• Upwelling takes place when strong northwest winds move surface water away from the shore, allowing cold water, rich in nitrate, silicate and other nutrients, from deep in the ocean to rise to the surface.
  — Tommy Wright, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
• The team mixed the enzymes into a solution of alginic acid—a carbohydrate derived from algae—and silicates, which gelled into beads.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2014
• This method revealed a complex exoplanetary atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2019
• The research also team projected that the silicates swirling in these clouds periodically get too heavy and rain into the depths of the planet’s atmosphere.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
• The researchers also found evidence of a fragile silicate within Ryugu.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Aug. 2022
• An alternative would be to add pulverized reflective rock-like silicate to the soil surface.
  — National Geographic, 10 Feb. 2016
• Scratch-resistant aluminum silicate protects the display and the screen's advanced molding process reduces glare and distortion across the entire width of the vehicle, ​according to the company.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2021
• Olivine-rich bedrock is a fairly common silicate mineral.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 May 2022
• Such a viewpoint ignores the intrinsic value of lunar resources, Neal said, in the form of water ice at the poles, as well as the lunar soil which can be broken into oxygen, titanium, silicates and more.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2019
• During this process, the research team found that any crisscrossing or overlap of laser beams could lead to internal cracking, especially since lunar regolith is full of glass and other silicates.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023

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