belite

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noun

An industrial mineral made up of primarily of dicalcium silicate.

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Meanings

nounbelite (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn industrial mineral made up of primarily of dicalcium silicate.

    After heating in the kiln, the melted material is cooled rapidly to form an assemblage of the silicates alite (also known by the cement chemistry notation C3S) and belite (C2S), tricalcium aluminate (C3A) and tetracalcium aluminoferrite (C4AF), known as clinker.

    2020 September 22, G. Habert, S. A. Miller, V. M. John, J. L. Provis, A. Favier, A. Horvath & K. L. Scrivener, “Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries”, in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Origin

Named by Alfred Elis Törnebohm in 1897 after examining Portland cement through a microscope.

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Chicago

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