SILICICACID

Silicic acid

Silicic acid is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is a silanol. Silicic acid is also the general name for a family of chemical compounds containing the element silicon attached to oxide and hydroxyl groups. This family of compounds have the general formula x4-2x'>1n. Some simple silicic acids have been identified, but only in very dilute aqueous solution, such as metasilicic acid, orthosilicic acid, disilicic acid, and pyrosilicic acid ; however in the solid state these probably condense to form polymeric silicic acids of complex structure.

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silicic acid

Noun

  1. any of a range of compounds, being hydrates of silica; they form silicates having complex polymeric structures


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