See Also: Wollaston(dictionary)
Wollaston's doublet(medicine)
Wollaston's theory(medicine)
Wollaston, William(medicine)
Wollaston Lake(encyclopedia)

Wollaston (iou)



Wollaston noun. L19.
[William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English physicist and chemist.]
Physics. Used attrib. and in possess. with ref. to things designed by Wollaston.
Wollaston prism, Wollaston's prism a prism made from two prisms of calcite or quartz with their optic axes perpendicular to each other and to the incident light, which is split into two diverging beams of polarized light.
wollastonite noun (Mineralogy) a triclinic metasilicate of calcium, usu. occurring in white to grey fibrous tabular masses and used as a source of rock wool (also called
tabular spar) E19.