Each silicon-oxygen tetrahedron in single-chain silicate minerals shares:

a) No oxygen atom
b) Two oxygen atoms
c) Alternating two and three oxygen atoms
d) Three oxygen atoms
e) Four oxygen atoms


Ans: b) Two oxygen atoms

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