calcium silicate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of calcium silicate
First recorded in 1885–90
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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
The appeals court also upheld the dismissal of a claim that Johns Manville might have tied sales of other products to distributors agreeing not to buy TPS' calcium silicate.
From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2023
So it was a surprise when he and his colleagues, analyzing imperfections in a diamond from Orapa, Botswana, found three minuscule specks of calcium silicate perovskite.
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 Rufus Phillips Williams
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