Question

write the structures of pyrosilicates and chain silicates.

Answer 1

Chain silicates can also have double strands. Such double chains are formed when two single chains are linked by sharing of oxygen atoms. They have the general formula or . ... The double chain silicates are also known as amphiboles.

Sorosilicate, formerly called pyrosilicate, any member of a group of compounds with structures that have two silicate tetrahedrons (each consisting of a central silicon atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners of a tetrahedron) linked together.