Silicon is the backbone of the semiconductor industry, but it's also interesting in its own right. Here's why it's so ...

PQ ( a leading global producer of silicates, silicas and derivative products, announced that it has completed the acquisition ...

Terra’s proprietary process uses widely available silicate-based raw materials, which are among the most abundant materials on Earth. By locating plants on or near existing aggregate mines ...

Sometimes they have an iron core and concentric layers, surrounded by a silicate mantle and crust. Iron meteorites are mainly made of an iron-nickel alloy with a distinctive crystalline structure ...

Melting and clumped accumulation (accretion) of dust particles at high temperatures (up to 2,000 Kelvin [~1,727 °C]) in the protoplanetary disk formed crystallized silicate spheres known as ...