(n) English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828), Syn.William Hyde Wollaston
n. [ After Dr. W. H. Wollaston, an English chemist, who died in 1828. ] (Min.) A silicate of lime of a white to gray, red, or yellow color, occurring generally in cleavable masses, rarely in tabular crystals; tabular spar. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ After W. H. Wollaston, English physicist. ] (Optics) A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. Under "wollastonite" the eponymous inventor is described as a chemist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]
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