Silicates were a large class of minerals based on a tetrahedral silicon-oxygen unit (SiO4).
The spaceborne organism nicknamed "Junior", discovered by the USS Enterprise-D in 2367, had an outer shell made from silicates, actinides, and carbonaceous chondrite. (TNG: "Galaxy's Child")
The lifeforms on L-S VI were based on silicates rather than carbon. (DS9: "The Alternate")
In 2374, the Silver Blood USS Voyager collected silicates from a comet in the Podaris sector. (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
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| Antimonium • Archerite • Arcybite • Asbestos • Bakrinium • Bemonite • Benamite • Beresium • Bernicium • Bilitrium • Chrondite • Cormaline • Cormalite • Duranite • Eisillium • Feldomite • Feldspar • Fortanium • Gallicite • Garnesite • Hematite • Hornblende • Ice • Jakmanite • Jevonite • Kelbonite • Kemocite • Ladarium • Magnesite • Murinite • Nitrium • Noranium • Olivine • Paralithium • Pergium • Polyferranide • Promethean quartz • Pyrite • Quartz • Riddinite • Ryetalyn • Salenite • Selenite • Silicate • Silithium • Styrolite • Talgonite • Topaline • Trellium • Trevium • Tricellite • Tricyanate • Tri-magnesite • Tritanium • Tryoxene • Uraninite • Uridium • Vendarite • Vokaya • Zenite |