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How the nature of chemical bonds in silicates governs their structural and physical properties has long been of interest. Experimentally, the bonding in silicates can be investigated using spectroscopy and by mapping electron density distributions with X-ray and neutron diffraction. Since the 1970s, there has also been much effort directed towards the study of bonding from first-principles electronic structure calculations using molecular orbital and band theory. This chapter will review the experimental and theoretical investigations on the nature of the Si—O bond.
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Dubrovinsky, S., Sherman, D.M. (1994). Chemical Bonding in Silicates. In: Marfunin, A.S. (eds) Advanced Mineralogy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78523-8_19
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