Could be the mineral magnesite (magnesium carbonate).  Magnesite is a white
mineral that can be formed from the weathering of olivine.

--Paul
>
> It happened that I found few new meteorites recently and that, having cut
> them into slices for analyses i discovered some white clasts inside what
> seems to be a weathered chondrite. It does not look like a terrestrial
> contamination into cracks and I was wondering if it could be a CAI.
>



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