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silicon-oxygen tetrahedron

A fundamental structural unit of silicate minerals formed by four oxygen ions surrounding one silicon ion such that lines connecting the four oxygen nuclei show the outline of a geometric tetrahedron. It is commonly written SiO4with the electronic charge of minus 4 for the unit assumed.

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