(from the article `mineral`) The silicates can be divided into groups according to structural configuration, which arises from the sharing of one, two, three, or all oxygen ions ... The silicon-oxygen tetrahedrons of the nesosilicates are not polymerized; they are linked to one another only by ionic bonds of the interstitial ... [2 r...
Mineral with isolated silicate tetrahedra. Also called orthosilicate.
any silicate, as olivine, in which the SiO tetrahedra are not interlinked. Cf.