Mineral wool
A synthetic inorganic fibre manufactured by melting rock, slag or glass and forming it into fine fibres, used chiefly as thermal and acoustic insulation.
Also called mineral fibre, mineral fiber, stone wool, rock wool, slag wool.
How it connects
Mineral wool is a kind of Mineral.
Other kinds of Mineral: Aluminium hydroxide, Barium sulfate, Calcium carbonate, Carbon black, Cementitious, Ceramic, Clay, Feldspar, Filler, Flame retardant additive, Glass, Gypsum, Jade, Mica, Mineral oxide, Obsidian, Pigment, Plaster, Plasterboard, Sand, Silica, Silicon, Stone, Talc and Zinc sulfide.
In other taxonomies
- Mineral woolUniclass, Ma_40_84_53nearly the same
- mineral woolWikidata, Q611617nearly the same
- Getty AATno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
- Mineral26
26 terms, Ceramic to Aluminium hydroxide
Record
- Also called
- mineral fibre · mineral fiber · stone wool · rock wool · slag wool
- Broader
- Mineral
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); EN 13162:2012+A1:2015, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/mineral-woolKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerMineralincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderMineraloutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Mineraloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Aluminium hydroxideoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Barium sulfateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Calcium carbonateoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Carbon blackoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Cementitiousoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Ceramicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Clayoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Feldsparoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Filleroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Flame retardant additiveoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Glassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Gypsumoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Jadeoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Micaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mineral oxideoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Obsidianoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Pigmentoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasteroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plasterboardoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Sandoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Silicaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Siliconoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Stoneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Talcoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Zinc sulfideoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_40_84_53 | Mineral wool | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q611617 | mineral wool | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 22 Oct 2026Mineral wool | mineral fibre | mineral fiber | rock wool via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql; luc:term search, AAT preferred labels and English scope notes read | none |