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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.
Silicon and oxygen are the two most common chemical elements in the crust that also happen to like each others company very much. Pure silicon oxide is known as mineral quartz which makes up 12% of the crust. There is not a single common non-silicate mineral that contains silicon â silicon always combines with oxygen.