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What does wollastonite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, CaSiO3, found deposited in limestone.
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The Liassic beds are often metamorphosed and the limestones contain garnet and wollastonite.
Intense and sustained technical support will be required to create such a market for wollastonite.
Test work encountered problems with recovery rates and the separation of calcite from wollastonite.
The main minerals identified were mainly calcite also some diopside, wollastonite, iron oxides and a few scattered dolomite crystals.
As wollastonite is a natural mineral, compounds containing wollastonite can be recycled.
Canada, at this time, has no wollastonite production and relies on imports for all of its consumption.

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