wollastonite

IPA: wˈɑɫʌstoʊnaɪt

(mineralogy) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, CaSiO₃, found deposited in limestone.

Examples of "wollastonite" in Sentences

In addition, non-textile glass fibers and wollastonite fibers are used.
Grossular discovery and vesuvianite contact metamorphism of limestone, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite.
The company will continue to mine wollastonite at its Harrisville site and process it at its mill in Balmat.
Endomines has additional claims in Finnish Lappland (gold), Ostrobothnia (ilmenite) and Southern Finland (limestone/wollastonite).
The inorganic natural fiber wollastonite is a calcium metasilicate with a chain structure consisting of at least 96.5 % CaO and SiO2.
They found the signatures of calcium-rich wollastonite as well as iron-rich ferrosillite in their spectral observations of 1999 TA10.
Apart from the calcium-rich mineral wollastonite, the measurements primarily point to the presence of the iron-rich material ferrosillite.
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.
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.
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.