Calcite

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  • noun. A common crystalline form of natural calcium carbonate, CaCO3, that is the basic constituent of limestone, marble, and chalk.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Native calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime, one of the commonest of minerals.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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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  • noun. a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble
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  • noun. a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone
    • Word Usage
    "The calcite is basically floating in solution around the shell, and it deposits on the shell like a forming crystal."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spar  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Iceland spar  alabaster  chalk  mexican onyx  onyx marble  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    acicular  apatite  bitartrate  blood?  chalcedony  
    variant
    calc-spar  calcareous spar  
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