any of a class of silicate minerals, including talc, consisting of thin sheets
phyllosilicate in American English
(ˌfɪlouˈsɪlɪkɪt, -ˌkeit)
noun
any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five
Word origin
[1945–50; phyllo- + silicate]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: RNA, ergative, individual medley, on-line, shootoutphyllo- is a combining form meaning “leaf,” used in the formation of compound words. Otherwords that use the affix phyllo- include: phyllogenetic, phyllophagous, phyllophore, phylloquinone, phyllotaxis
Examples of 'phyllosilicate' in a sentence
phyllosilicate
Quantitative petrographic analysis shows that the tested samples display various percentages of secondary phyllosilicate minerals.
Petros Petrounias, Panagiota P. Giannakopoulou, Aikaterini Rogkala, Paraskevi Lampropoulou,Eleni Koutsopoulou, Dimitrios Papoulis, Basilios Tsikouras, Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou 2018, 'The Impact of Secondary Phyllosilicate Minerals on the Engineering Properties of VariousIgneous Aggregates from Greece', Mineralshttp://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/8/329. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Phyllosilicate minerals are critical components of seismogenic fault, shear and subduction zones.
Joe Aslin, Elisabetta Mariani, Karl Dawson, Michel W. Barsoum 2019, 'Ripplocations provide a new mechanism for the deformation of phyllosilicates in thelithosphere', Nature Communicationshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-019-08587-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The cataclasite was weakened through the development of a phyllosilicate foliation.
Thomas A. Czertowicz, Toru Takeshita, Shun Arai, Takafumi Yamamoto, Jun-Ichi Ando,Norio Shigematsu, Ko-Ichiro Fujimoto 2019, 'The architecture of long-lived fault zones: insights from microstructure and quartzlattice-preferred orientations in mylonites of the Median Tectonic Line, SW Japan',Progress in Earth and Planetary Sciencehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40645-019-0261-6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We built a comprehensive, generalized model of the adsorption mechanisms of nucleotides onto phyllosilicate particles, mainly governed by phosphate reactivity.
Ulysse Pedreira-Segade, Jihua Hao, Angelina Razafitianamaharavo, Manuel Pelletier,Virginie Marry, Sébastien Le Crom, Laurent J. Michot, Isabelle Daniel 2018, 'How do Nucleotides Adsorb Onto Clays?', Lifehttps://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/8/4/59. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It was identified that clay materials are characterized by the presence of phyllosilicate minerals such as kaolinite and muscovite.
Diana Carolina Alvarez-Rozo, Jorge Sánchez-Molina, Francisco A. Corpas-Iglesias, JohnF. Gelves 2018, 'Características de las materias primas usadas por las empresas del sector cerámicodel área metropolitana de Cúcuta (Colombia)', Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidriohttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0366317518300293. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Chemical, mineralogical, and petrographic analyses have shown the presence of largeamounts of phyllosilicate minerals, such as illite.
M. Muschietti, G. Losito 1998, 'Is the illite group the cause of high electrical conductivityin certain lithosphericareas?', Annals of Geophysicshttp://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/4342. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)