noun
- A salt or ester of metasilicic acid, containing silicon and oxygen in a 1:3 ratio; a type of silicate mineral or compound.
Usage: technical; chemistry
Examples
- Sodium metasilicate is commonly used in detergents and cleaning products.
- The metasilicate compound was analyzed using X-ray crystallography.
- Metasilicates are important constituents of certain volcanic rocks.
- The laboratory prepared a metasilicate solution for the experiment.
- Potassium metasilicate has applications in glass manufacturing.