Classify each of the following as a component of a silicate ceramic, an oxide ceramic, or a nonoxide ceramic. b. Mg₂SiO₄

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Hey everyone in this example, we're given three categories of ceramics and we need to identify what zirconium dioxide is within these categories. So what we should recognize is that an oxide is going to be a binary compound of oxygen and another a limit. And so because we recognize that we do have a binary compound here because we just have an atom of zirconium as well as another atom being oxygen, We can say that therefore ZR02 is a oxide ceramic, and that's because it's a binary compound with oxygen. Where are zirconium atom is bonded to two atoms of oxygen. So oxide ceramic would be our final answer. I hope that everything I reviewed was clear. But if you have any questions, please leave them down below and I will see everyone in the next practice video.