a white, yellow, or green mineral of the olivine group consisting of magnesium silicate. Formula: Mg2SiO4
Word origin
C19: named after J. R. Forster (1729–98), German naturalist
Examples of 'forsterite' in a sentence
forsterite
Crystalline forsterite grains can reproduce many fine spectral features of the sample stars.
Kyung-Won Suh, Young-Joo Kwon 2011, 'Dust Around T Tauri Stars', Journal of Astronomy and Space Scienceshttp://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2011/v28n4/OJOOBS_2011_v28n4_253.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Bactericidal tests indicate that the forsterite had inhibition effect on the growth of clinical bacterial isolates.
Rajan Choudhary, Ankita Chatterjee, Senthil Kumar Venkatraman, Sivasankar Koppala,Jayanthi Abraham, Sasikumar Swamiappan 2018, 'Antibacterial forsterite (Mg2SiO4) scaffold: A promising bioceramic for load bearingapplications', Bioactive Materialshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452199X17301135. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Forsterite contents are, to some extent, related to bulk rock composition and abundances of coexisting phases.
P. Peltonen 1990, 'Metamorphic olivine in pictritic metavolcanics from southern Finland', Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finlandhttp://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume62/sgs_bt_062_2_pages_099_114.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Forsterite may be a suitable candidate material for load bearing applications with enhanced mechanical properties and lower degradation rate.
Rajan Choudhary, Ankita Chatterjee, Senthil Kumar Venkatraman, Sivasankar Koppala,Jayanthi Abraham, Sasikumar Swamiappan 2018, 'Antibacterial forsterite (Mg2SiO4) scaffold: A promising bioceramic for load bearingapplications', Bioactive Materialshttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452199X17301135. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)