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Rotalite :: Rotalite (n.) Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod..

Absorbent :: Absorbent (n.) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. g., iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts..

Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land..

Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach..

Whiting :: Whiting (n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc..

Glauconite :: Glauconite (n.) The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

Reddle :: Reddle (n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.

Bufonite :: Bufonite (n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad..

Calciform :: Calciform (a.) In the form of chalk or lime.

Calcography :: Calcography (n.) The art of drawing with chalk.

Pica :: Pica (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia..

Insoluble :: Insoluble (a.) Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water..

Supradecompound :: Supracretaceous (a.) Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.

Chalk :: Chalk (n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon..

Chalked :: Chalked (imp. & p. p.) of Chal.

Cretaceously :: Cretaceously (adv.) In a chalky manner; as chalk.

Chalkiness :: Chalkiness (n.) The state of being chalky.

Cretose :: Cretose (a.) Chalky; cretaceous.

Chalkcutter :: Chalkcutter (n.) A man who digs chalk.

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..

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