Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A common crystalline form of natural calcium carbonate, CaCO3, that is the basic constituent of limestone, marble, and chalk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime, one of the commonest of minerals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also
calc-spar andcalcareous spar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology a very widely distributed
crystalline form ofcalcium carbonate , CaCO3, found aslimestone ,chalk andmarble
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone
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Examples
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The calcite is basically floating in solution around the shell, and it deposits on the shell like a forming crystal.
Egg-Citing Facts 2008
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The name calcite (Lat. _calx_, _calcis_, meaning burnt lime) is of comparatively recent origin, and was first applied, in 1836, to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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In such cases the cleavage of one stone is often of paramount importance in testing the cleavage of another, as is seen in the perfection of the cleavage planes of calcite, which is used in the polariscope.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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The latter mode of origin is suggested by the frequent occurrence of calamine pseudomorphous after calcite, that is, having the form of calcite crystals.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The research works by using a naturally forming crystal called calcite which has extraordinary light bending abilities.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The ancient skeletal fossils are made not of bone, but of calcite, which is the same material that makes up the rock matrix in which they are embedded.
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The stone lets out a chemical called calcite which means that the building stays white even when exposed to the elements.
EzineArticles 2010
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They may see colors that are due to other minerals such as calcite, which forms hard pan or caliche in the -- in certain parts of the U.S. and which is deposited, in most cases, by water.
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Another form of calcite which is to be sparingly found is what is called dogtooth spar, having the form shown in Fig. 4.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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Some of the dissolved substances of weathering, such as calcite, quartz, and iron oxide, are carried down and deposited in openings of the rocks, where they act as cements.
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