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Agriculture · Q107

Soil Science

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 107

Q107

Zeolite comes under which group of silicates?

A.
Inosilicate
B.
Tectosilicate
Answer
C.
Nesosilicate
D.
Sorosilicate

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Zeolites are microporous, three-dimensional crystalline solids of aluminium silicate. Zeolites have small openings of fixed size in them which allow small molecules to pass through them easily but larger molecules cannot pass through them, that is why they are also called molecular sieves.
Zeolites come under the group of Tectosilicates, these are framework silicates that have a three-dimensional framework silicate tetrahedral with SiO2 or a 1 : 2 ratio.