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| - Some of the properties that make wollastonite so useful are its high brightness and whiteness, low moisture and oil absorption, and low volatile content. Wollastonite is used primarily in ceramics, friction products (brakes and clutches), metalmaking, paint filler, and plastics.
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Category
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opticalprop
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mohs
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Solubility
| - soluble in HCl, insoluble in water
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Gravity
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Name
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streak
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formula
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melt
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System
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Color
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cleavage
| - perfect in two directions at near 90 degrees
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habit
| - rare tabular crystals - commonly massive in lamellar, radiating, compact and fibrous aggregates.
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diaphaneity
| - Transparent to translucent
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fracture
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refractive
| - nα = 1.616 - 1.640 nβ = 1.628 - 1.650 nγ = 1.631 - 1.653
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luster
| - vitreous or dull to pearly on cleavage surfaces
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birefringence
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abstract
| - Some of the properties that make wollastonite so useful are its high brightness and whiteness, low moisture and oil absorption, and low volatile content. Wollastonite is used primarily in ceramics, friction products (brakes and clutches), metalmaking, paint filler, and plastics. Despite its chemical similarity to the compositional spectrum of the pyroxene group of minerals - where magnesium and iron substitution for calcium ends with diopside and hedenbergite respectively - it is structurally very different, with a third SiO4 tetrahedron in the linked chain (as opposed to two in the pyroxenes).
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