How to Use silicate in a Sentence

silicate

noun

• That dust is actually a mix of grease, soot and silicate sand.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• 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
• Part of the water present in this magma soup associates with the silicates and can one day end up in the surface oceans.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
• Their cores are thought to be composed of rocky and metallic material, likely a mix of silicates and iron.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• There are silicates glittering in the asphalt.
  — Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• These include crystalline silicates like quartz, as well as glimmering metals such as iron and nickel.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
• Higher still will be the densities of rocky worlds made principally of silicates.
  — The Economist, 3 Aug. 2019
• Apophis is believed to be stony, made up of silicate (or rocky) materials and a mixture of metallic nickel and iron.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• Another wavelength grouping is thought to come from higher in the atmosphere and patchy clouds of silicates.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• Many contain crystalline silicates that only form after exposure to high heat, which doesn’t make a lot of sense to astronomers.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
• Kohoutek also marked the first direct detection of methyl cyanide, hydrogen cyanide and silicates in a comet.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
• Shangri-La’s sand dunes aren’t silicates like on Earth, though, but likely grains of frozen hydrocarbons.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
• 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
• On Earth, clouds are made of water, and on Jupiter, they're made of ammonia, while much hotter worlds can have clouds of silicates.
  — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 19 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• Unlike Magnifique’s completely clay pot, however, these stoneware crocks are glazed in a silicate made of a blend of quartz, feldspar, and clay.
  — Callie Sumlin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• At the immense temperatures and pressures found in the nascent worlds, iron can bind roughly 70 times more water than silicates.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Granite is a natural stone composed primarily of silicates, such as quartz, feldspar, and mica.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Feb. 2026
• Granite is a natural stone composed primarily of silicates, such as quartz, feldspar, and mica.
  — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Nov. 2025
• It’s mostly composed of silicates, compounds of silicon and oxygen.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• The researchers also found evidence of a fragile silicate within Ryugu.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The blue wisps of light show emissions from molecules like silicates and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
• Volcanic ash is heavy in silicates, which have a melting temperature close to 2,000 degrees.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2019
• The parent body was also covered in water ice, which explains the magnetite, carbonates, and silicates found on Ryugu—these need water to form.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 19 May 2024