Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coated, mixed, combined, or impregnated with silica.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica.
- adjective a hard soap containing silicate of soda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective inorganic chemistry Containing
silicate orsilica
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Examples
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It is important that the soap to be "silicated" should be distinctly alkaline
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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_ -- These are silicated or liquored soaps in which the natural mottling, due to the impure materials used in the early days of soap-making, is imitated by artificial mottling, and are, consequently, entirely different to curd mottled soaps.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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On examination of a section under the microscope, all the cells of the different layers are seen to be more or less silicated, the silex forming in the cells when the bark is still very young.
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By plunging silicated shells into hot solutions of salts of chrome, nickel, cobalt, or copper, beautiful dyes in yellow, green, and blue are produced.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various
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True lodes are veins of injection formed by the infiltration of silicated waters carrying the metals also in solution.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Cheaper pale soaps may be made from lower grades of tallow and rosin and are generally silicated.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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It is much more rational to suppose that the increased hardness imparted to the slates and schists at or near their contact with the lode is due to an infiltration of silica from the silicated solution which at one time filled the fissure.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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The weathering of the silicated limestone gangue results in great masses of clay which are characteristic features of the oxide zones of these deposits.
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It is a rather common mineral in silicated zones in limestones near igneous contacts, but gem tourmalines are found principally in pegmatite dikes.
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Dakota, or is present in a typical contact-metamorphic silicated zone in limestone, as in some of the deposits of the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
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