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| Colour: | White | Lustre: | Vitreous | |||||
| Hardness: | 5 | |||||||
| Name: | Named after William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English chemist and mineralogist who discovered palladium (1804) and rhodium (1809) and invented the reflecting goniometer (1809) and the camera lucida (1812). | |||||||
Classification of Wollastonite-7A | ||||||
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Physical Properties of Wollastonite-7A | ||||||
| Lustre: | Vitreous | |||||
| Colour: | White | |||||
| Streak: | White | |||||
| Hardness (Mohs): | 5 | |||||
Chemical Properties of Wollastonite-7A | ||||||
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| Essential elements: | Ca, O, Si | |||||
| All elements listed in formula: | Ca, O, Si | |||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |||||
References for Wollastonite-7A | ||||||
| Reference List: | Henmi, C., Kusachi, I., Kawahara, A., and Henmi, K. (1978) 7T wollastonite from Fuka, Okayama Prefecture. Mineralogical Journal: 9: 169-181. | |||||
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