Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A white to gray mineral, essentially CaSiO3, found in metamorphic rocks and used in ceramics, paints, plastics, and cements.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mineral occurring in tabular crystals (hence called
tabular spar ), also massive, cleavable, with fibrous structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A grey
inosilicate mineral , mostly calcium silicate,Ca Si O 3, found deposited inlimestone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Instead of condensing out hydrocarbons such as asphalt, petroleum jelly, kerosene and gasoline, the exoplanet's atmosphere condenses out minerals such as enstatite, corundum, spinel, and wollastonite.
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In addition, non-textile glass fibers and wollastonite fibers are used.
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The inorganic natural fiber wollastonite is a calcium metasilicate with a chain structure consisting of at least 96.5 % CaO and SiO2.
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Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO_3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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It just seems to me that if we are going to not have percentage depletion for oil, maybe we should not have it for gold and silver and wollastonite whatever that is.
Forbes.com: News Peter J Reilly 2011
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Apart from the calcium-rich mineral wollastonite, the measurements primarily point to the presence of the iron-rich material ferrosillite.
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Endomines has additional claims in Finnish Lappland (gold), Ostrobothnia (ilmenite) and Southern Finland (limestone/wollastonite).
unknown title 2011
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They found the signatures of calcium-rich wollastonite as well as iron-rich ferrosillite in their spectral observations of 1999 TA10.
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Grossular discovery and vesuvianite contact metamorphism of limestone, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite.
VInvesting.com 2010
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The company will continue to mine wollastonite at its Harrisville site and process it at its mill in Balmat.
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