wollastonite

English

Etymology

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

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)
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)

(mineralogy) wollastonite

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

wollastonite f (uncountable) (European Portuguese spelling)

(mineralogy) wollastonite (a grey inosilicate mineral)