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A white or grayish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone
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wollastonite
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n. a white or grayish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium
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Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral ( Ca Si O ) that may contain small amounts of iron , magnesium , and manganese substituting for calcium. It is usually white. It forms when impure limestone or dolostone is subjected to high temperature and ...
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n. (context mineralogy English) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, calciumsiliconoxygen 3 , found deposited in limestone.
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Wollastonite \Wol"las*ton*ite\, n. [After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828.] (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.