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DURING studies of the crystallisation kinetics of aluminosilicate glasses of approximately metasilicate composition, surface nucleated crystals have been observed to grow in a fibrous habit1. This has been attributed to the presence of β-CaSiO3, the low-temperature polymorph of calcium metasilicate, the mineral equivalent of which, wollastonite, occurs naturally in a similar form.
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Williamson, J., Tipple, A. J., and Rogers, P. S., J. Iron Steel Inst., 206, 899–903 (1968).
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MARIES, A., ROGERS, P. Controlled growth of crystalline silicate fibres. Nature 256, 401–402 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/256401a0
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