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Webster 1913 Edition

Wollastonite

Wol′las-ton-ite

,

Noun.

[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.

Definition 2025

wollastonite

wollastonite

English

Wollastonite

Noun

wollastonite ‎(countable and uncountable, plural wollastonites)

(mineralogy) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, Ca Si O₃, found deposited in limestone.

Translations

grey inosilicate mineral

Basque: wollastonita
Chinese:
Mandarin: 硅灰石 (zh)
Dutch: wollastoniet
Estonian: vollastoniit
Finnish: wollastoniitti
French: wollastonite (fr)
German: Wollastonit (de)
Japanese: 珪灰石

Norwegian: wollastonitt
Polish: wollastonit
Portuguese: wollastonite f
Romanian: wollastonit
Russian: волластонит (ru) ‎(vollastonit)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: воластонит

Roman: volastonit, wollastonit
Spanish: wollastonita f

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

wollastonite f (uncountable)

(mineralogy) wollastonite (a grey inosilicate mineral)