320 px, Idealized structure of sodium metasilicate. Metasilicates are

silicate In chemistry, a silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula , where . The family includes orthosilicate (), metasilicate (), and pyrosilicate (, ). The name is al ...

s containing ions of empirical formula . Common

stoichiometries Stoichiometry refers to the relationship between the quantities of reactants and products before, during, and following chemical reactions. Stoichiometry is founded on the law of conservation of mass where the total mass of the reactants equals ...

include MSiO₃ and M^IISiO₃. Metasilicates can be cyclic, usually the hexamer or chains . Common compounds containing metasilicate anion are: * Inosilicates * Metasilicic acid (hydrogen metasilicate) * Sodium metasilicate *

Calcium metasilicate Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral ( Ca Si O3) that may contain small amounts of iron, magnesium, and manganese substituting for calcium. It is usually white. It forms when impure limestone or dolomite is subjected to high temperature a ...

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