WOLLASTONITE

Meaning of WOLLASTONITE in English

[wol.las.ton.ite] n [William H. Wollaston] (1823): a triclinic mineral consisting of a native calcium silicate occurring usu. in cleavable masses

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WOLLASTONITE — noun Etymology: William H. Wollaston Date: 1823 a triclinic mineral consisting of a native calcium silicate occurring usually in cleavable …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
WOLLASTONITE — -təˌnīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: William H. Wollaston died 1828 English chemist and physicist + English -ite : a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WOLLASTONITE — (n.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely …
Английский словарь Webster
WOLLASTONITE — ( n. ) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
WOLLASTONITE — /wool"euh steuh nuyt'/ , n. a mineral, calcium silicate, CaSiO 3 , occurring usually in fibrous white masses. [ 1815-25; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WOLLASTONITE — noun Etymology: William H. Wollaston Date: 1823 : a triclinic mineral consisting of a native calcium silicate occurring usually in …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WOLLASTONITE — noun a silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely …
Webster English vocab
WOLLASTONITE — [ 'wʊləstənʌɪt ] ■ noun a white or greyish mineral consisting of calcium silicate, used as a source of rock …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WOLLASTONITE — white, glassy silicate mineral that commonly occurs as masses or tabular crystals with other calcium-containing silicates (e.g., diopside, tremolite, garnet, …
Britannica English vocabulary
WOLLASTONITE — wollastonite BrE AmE ˈwʊl əst ə naɪt
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WOLLASTONITE — волластонит (минералогия) волластонит
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WOLLASTONITE — Волластонит
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WOLLASTONITE — n мин. волластонит
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WOLLASTONITE — (n) волластонит
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
WOLLASTONITE — n мин. волластонит
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
WOLLASTONITE — n мин. волластонит
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
WOLLASTONITE — волластонит (минералогия) волластонит
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WOLLASTONITE — n. Pronunciation: ' wu ̇ -l ə -st ə - ˌ n ī t, ' wä- Function: noun Etymology: William …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
AMPHIBOLITE FACIES — One of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of Less-intense temperatures and pressures form rocks of the {{link=epidote-amphibolite …
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TABULAR SPAR — noun Etymology: so called from appearing sometimes in tabular twinned crystals : wollastonite
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PARAWOLLASTONITE — “+ noun Etymology: para- (I) + wollastonite : a mineral CaSiO 3 consisting of calcium silicate dimorphous with wollastonite
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CUPRORIVAITE — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|rēvəˌīt, -ri-, -ˌvīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: cupr- + rivaite (synonym of wollastonite ), from Dr. Carlo Riva Italian …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CALCIUM SILICATE — noun : any of several silicates of calcium: as a. : tricalcium silicate Ca 3 SiO 5 found as an …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WOLLASTON WIRE — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CALCIUM SILICATE — any of the silicates of calcium: calcium metasilicate, dicalcium silicate, and tricalcium silicate. Cf. wollastonite . [ 1885-90 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SKARN — in geology, metamorphic zone developed in the contact area around igneous rock intrusions when carbonate sedimentary rocks are invaded by …
Britannica English vocabulary
METAMORPHIC ROCK — any of a class of rocks that result from the alteration of preexisting rocks in response to changing environmental conditions, …
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MARBLE — small, hard ball that is used in a variety of children's games and is named after the 18th-century practice of …
Britannica English vocabulary
IJOLITE — intrusive igneous rock that is composed essentially of nepheline and an alkali pyroxene, usually aegirinaugite. It is the plutonic equivalent …
Britannica English vocabulary
AMPHIBOLITE FACIES — one of the major divisions of the mineral-facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which formed under conditions of …
Britannica English vocabulary
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS — byname Adirondacks mountains in northeastern New York state, U.S. They extend southward from the St. Lawrence River valley and Lake …
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AMPHIBOLITE FACIES — One of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks , encompassing rocks that formed under conditions …
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