wollastonite

English

Wollastonite

Etymology

Wollaston +‎ -ite, after William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist.

Noun

wollastonite (countable and uncountable, plural wollastonites)

1. (mineralogy) A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, CaSiO₃, 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)
• Greek: βολαστονίτης (el) m (volastonítis)
• 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

French

Noun

wollastonite f (plural wollastonites)

1. (mineralogy) wollastonite

Further reading

• “wollastonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• volastonite
• wollastonita, volastonita (Brazil)

Noun

wollastonite f (uncountable) (European spelling)

1. (mineralogy) wollastonite (a grey inosilicate mineral)