wollastonite in English

noun
1
a white or grayish mineral typically occurring in tabular masses in metamorphosed limestone. It is a silicate of calcium and is used as a source of rock wool.
The Badger Flats area is also well known for clinozoisite, garnet, hematite, scheelite, vesuvianite, wollastonite , and zoisite (variety thulite).

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1. Under a microscope afwillite looks like wollastonite, which is in the same family as afwillite.

2. 4 Apatite - wollastonite bioactive glass - ceramic ( AW GC ) has high biocompatibility and bioactivity and better mechanical properties.

3. ‘Small Acicular rutile crystals are found in cavities in various quarries in the Carrara, Tuscany district, Italy.’ ‘Wollastonite or calcium metasilicate is a naturally occurring industrial mineral that has an Acicular …

4. 25 The effect of addition of P_2O_5 in a few thousandths on the devitrification behavior of plate glass with primary phase of tridymite is different from that with primary phase of wollastonite.