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    Wollastonite is a calcium inosilicate mineral (CaSiO3) that may contain small amounts of iron, magnesium, and manganese substituting for calcium. It is...
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    Mineral examples include plagioclase, microcline, rhodonite, turquoise, wollastonite and amblygonite, all in triclinic normal (1). Crystal structure Crystal...
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    packaging and food applications due to its long-term thermal stability. Wollastonite has an acicular structure with a relatively high specific gravity and...
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    NaFeIIISi2O6 Spodumene – LiAlSi2O6 Pyroxferroite - (Fe,Ca)SiO3 Pyroxenoid group Wollastonite – CaSiO3 Rhodonite – MnSiO3 Pectolite – NaCa2(Si3O8)(OH) Amphibole group...
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  • minerals available from India are phosphorite, dolomite, gypsum, garnet, wollastonite, vermiculite, ochre, perlite, bentonite, asbestos, cadmium, felspar,...
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    existing rocks in which calcium silicate minerals such as diopside and wollastonite are produced. Calc–silicate skarn or hornfels occur within impure limestone...
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    plagioclase, and depending on the protolith, more calcite/aragonite and wollastonite. Often the easiest way to determine the true nature of an amphibolite...
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  • 13780-18-2 CaSeO4 calcium selenate 14019-91-1 CaSiO3 calcium metasilicate wollastonite 1344-95-2 CaTe calcium telluride 12013-57-9 CaTeO3 calcium tellurite...
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    these objects found that they consist either of hematite (Fe2O3) or wollastonite (CaSiO3) mixed with minor amounts of hematite and goethite (FeOOH). The...
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    (Ca2SiO4) 3CaO·SiO2, alite or (Ca3SiO5) 3CaO·2SiO2, (Ca3Si2O7) CaO·SiO2, wollastonite (CaSiO3). This article focuses on Ca2SiO4, also known as calcium orthosilicate...
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    elements and he would rename columbium "niobium" in 1846. The mineral wollastonite was later named after Wollaston for his contributions to crystallography...
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    both naturally occurring and synthetic asbestos-like fibers, such as wollastonite, attapulgite, glass wool and rock wool, are believed to have similar...
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    Sonora is the leading producer of gold, copper, graphite, molybdenum, and wollastonite. There are still deposits of silver in the Sierra Madre Occidental. Sonora...
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  • minerals) Whitlockite Willemite Wiluite Witherite Wodginite Wolframite Wollastonite Woodhouseite Wöhlerite Wulfenite Wurtzite Wüstite Wyartite Xanthiosite...
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    Balkan, O.; Demirer, H. (2010). "Mechanical properties of glass bead- and wollastonite-filled isotactic-polypropylene composites modified with thermoplastic...
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    highly abrasive fillers such as chopped or hammer-milled glass fiber and wollastonite.[citation needed] A high-pressure polyurethane dispense unit, showing...
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    others at low levels of addition such as dolomite, limestone, talc and wollastonite. The production of pottery includes the following stages: Preparing the...
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  • Wardite Wavellite Weloganite Whewellite Wilkeite Willemite Witherite Wollastonite Wulfenite Wurtzite Xonotlite Yugawaralite Zektzerite Zeolites Analcime...
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    skarns, contact metamorphosed limestones with vesuvianite, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite. Grossular garnet from Kenya and Tanzania has been called...
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    with more than 50 mol.% calcium are not possible. A related mineral wollastonite has the formula of the hypothetical calcium end member (Ca2Si2O6) but...
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    low-pressure metamorphic minerals, such as spinel, andalusite, vesuvianite, or wollastonite. Similar changes may be induced in shales by the burning of coal seams...
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    while some calcium minerals containing little iron or magnesium, such as wollastonite or apatite, were included in the femic minerals. Cross and his coinvestigators...
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    variety of calc-silicate and associated minerals, including idocrase, wollastonite, actinolite, magnetite or hematite, epidote and scapolite. Because skarns...
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    Massachusetts. Enstatite, with MgSiO3 and FeSiO3 end-members Khondalite Wollastonite, CaSiO3 Warr, L. N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols". Mineralogical...
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    crystal system is cubic. In addition to associated rocks (vesuvianite or wollastonite), most mineral samples contain large amounts of impurities and small...
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    the yellow fluorescence of esperite, and the orange fluorescence of wollastonite and clinohedrite. Hexavalent uranium, in the form of the uranyl cation...
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    other provinces of China, Jilin has extensive deposits of Kieselguhr, wollastonite, floatstone, and molybdenum. Industry in Jilin is concentrated on automobiles...
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    tremolite, anthophyllite and actinolite. Short, fiber-like minerals include wollastonite and palygorskite. Biological fibers, also known as fibrous proteins or...
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  • Wolfeite Wol Walentaite Wlt Waylandite Way Wetherillite Wet Wildcatite Wct Wollastonite Wo Walfordite Wfd Wayneburnhamite Wbh Wheatleyite Wty Wildenauerite Wda...
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  • Tilley and named for the location. At the type locality it occurs with wollastonite, spurrite, perovskite, merwinite, melilite and gehlenite. It occurs in...
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