• The bus rounds a corner and chugs to a stop in a swirl of silicate dust.

    BBC: Missing pieces in Utah

  • Comprised of silicate rock, the asteroid rolls through its eccentric orbit like a tumbling potato.

    CNN: NEAR and Eros

  • This substance (an iron-magnesium silicate whose greenish colour is reminiscent of olives) weathers rapidly in the presence of water.

    ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles

  • Dr Schiraldi's approach does this by using a silicate clay called sodium montmorillonite as a skeleton that holds the plastic together.

    ECONOMIST: An old idea may help solve the problem of plastic waste

  • In particular one part of it - calcium silicate hydrate - refused all attempts to be analysed under an electron microscope or by nano-indentation.

    BBC: By Ian Hardy

  • Abell says the best estimates now are that the Russian object was initially a rocky silicate asteroid that almost certainly originated from the main asteroid belt.

    FORBES: NASA Eager To Analyze Russian Meteor Fragments

  • The operation came a day after workers plugged a highly radioactive water leak from a concrete pit connected to the number two reactor, using sodium silicate - known as ''water glass''.

    BBC: Japan quake: Nitrogen pumped into nuclear reactor

  • Key to the program's long-term success will be the death mandated for the clunker: After its oil is drained and replaced with sodium silicate, the engine is run until it seizes.

    CNN: 'Cash for clunkers' program under way

  • About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.

    BBC: University of Nottingham

  • The general goal of this workshop is a focused review and adoption of a minimum set of QC procedures and QC flags starting with in situ dissolved inorganic nutrients (phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, and silicate) and dissolved oxygen.

    UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

  • On a typical day a ToorCamper can attend a talk on breaking into Android devices or disassembling microprocessors with acid and silicate solution to divine the secret cryptographic keys Microsoft stores there, learn to build a Geiger counter and scuba dive in a kelp forest in search of the North Pacific giant octopus.

    FORBES: Robots, Codebreaking and S'mores: Welcome To Summer Camp For Supergeeks

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