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A group of minerals containing various amounts of the elements Silicon and Oxygen. The Silicates are the largest group of minerals. The construction component of all Silicates is the tetrahedron, which is one Silicon atom equidimensionally placed around four Oxygen atoms.
Over 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass) after oxygen.