What is the mean for Framework silicate, sheet silicate,and chain silicate? Give me some examples?

-- XiuLan Liu (Liu@oswego.edu), September 29, 2002

Answers

Quartz and feldspar are framework silicates. Clay is an example of a sheet silicate. Amphibole is a double chain silicate, and pyroxene has a single chain structure.

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