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calcium silicate

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noun

  1. any of the silicates of calcium: calcium metasilicate, dicalcium silicate, and tricalcium silicate.


Etymology

Origin of calcium silicate

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

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For instance, one Oakland-based company is commercializing cement made from carbon-free calcium silicate rock, which emits no carbon dioxide when processed in a kiln.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2024

It accused Johns Manville of threatening to stop doing business with distributors if they bought TPS' calcium silicate, and that the threats enabled Johns Manville to still command 97.3% of the market by August 2021.

From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2023

So researchers had assumed it would be impossible to retrieve naturally occurring calcium silicate perovskite from the mantle.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

The slag is mostly calcium silicate and contains most of the commercially unimportant components of the ore:

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Glass is an Artificial Silicate.—Si02 alone is almost infusible, as is also Ca0; but mixed and heated the two readily fuse, forming calcium silicate.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

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