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Definition of calcite
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of calcite is as below...
Calcite
(n.)
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
and
calcareous
spar..
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Calc-tufa
::
Calc-tufa
(n.) See under
Calcite.
Argentine
::
Argentine
(n.) A
siliceous
variety
of
calcite,
or
carbonate
of lime,
having
a
silvery-white,
pearly
luster,
and a
waving
or
curved
lamellar
structure..
Shiver-spar
::
Shiver-spar
(n.) A
variety
of
calcite,
so
called
from its slaty
structure;
--
called
also slate
spar..
Stinkweed
::
Stinkstone
(n.) One of the
varieties
of
calcite,
barite,
and
feldspar,
which emit a fetid odor on being
struck;
--
called
also
swinestone..
Bergmeal
::
Bergmeal
(n.) An
earthy
substance,
resembling
fine
flour.
It is
composed
of the
shells
of
infusoria,
and in
Lapland
and
Sweden
is
sometimes
eaten,
mixed with flour or
ground
birch bark, in times of
scarcity.
This name is also given to a white
powdery
variety
of
calcite..
Calcite
::
Calcite
(n.)
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
and
calcareous
spar..
Calc-sinter
::
Calc-sinter
(n.) See under
Calcite.
Nitro-
::
Nitro-
() A
combining
form (used also
adjectively)
designating
certain
compounds
of
nitrogen
or of its
acids,
as
nitrohydrochloric,
nitrocalcite;
also,
designating
the group or
radical
NO2, or its
compounds,
as
nitrobenzene..
Pisolite
::
Pisolite
(n.) A
variety
of
calcite,
or
calcium
carbonate,
consisting
of
aggregated
globular
concretions
about the size of a pea; --
called
also
peastone,
peagrit..
Iceland Spar
::
Iceland
spar () A
transparent
variety
of
calcite,
the best of which is
obtained
in
Iceland.
It is used for the
prisms
of the
polariscope,
because
of its
strong
double
refraction.
Cf.
Calcite..
Ferrocalcite
::
Ferrocalcite
(n.)
Limestone
containing
a large
percentage
of iron
carbonate,
and hence
turning
brown on
exposure..
Veinstone
::
Veinstone
(n.) The
nonmetalliferous
mineral
or rock
material
which
accompanies
the ores in a vein, as
quartz,
calcite,
barite,
fluor spar, etc.; --
called
also
veinstuff..
Baryto-calcite
::
Baryto-calcite
(n.) A
mineral
of a white or gray
color,
occurring
massive
or
crystallized.
It is a
compound
of the
carbonates
of
barium
and
calcium..
Allomorph
::
Allomorph
(n.) Any one of two or more
distinct
crystalline
forms of the same
substance;
or the
substance
having
such
forms;
-- as,
carbonate
of lime
occurs
in the
allomorphs
calcite
and
aragonite..
Nitrocalcite
::
Nitrocalcite
(n.)
Nitrate
of
calcium,
a
substance
having
a
grayish
white
color,
occuring
in
efforescences
on old
walls,
and in
limestone
caves,
especially
where there
exists
decaying
animal
matter..
Aphrite
::
Aphrite
(n.) See under
Calcite.
Paramorph
::
Paramorph
(n.) A kind of
pseudomorph,
in which there has been a
change
of
physical
characters
without
alteration
of
chemical
composition,
as the
change
of
aragonite
to
calcite..
Calc-spar
::
Calc-spar
(n.) Same as
Calcite.
Spar
::
Spar (n.) An old name for a
nonmetallic
mineral,
usually
cleavable
and
somewhat
lustrous;
as, calc spar, or
calcite,
fluor spar, etc. It was
especially
used in the case of the
gangue
minerals
of a
metalliferous
vein..
Amygdaloid
::
Amygdaloid
(n.) A
variety
of trap or
basaltic
rock,
containing
small
cavities,
occupied,
wholly
or in part, by
nodules
or
geodes
of
different
minerals,
esp.
agates,
quartz,
calcite,
and the
zeolites.
When the
imbedded
minerals
are
detached
or
removed
by
decomposition,
it is
porous,
like
lava..
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