Calcareous: alternatives and connections

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gr…

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime…

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its ph…

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A carbonate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the…

A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.

A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…

The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatil…

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…

A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composit…

A whitish marble, from Rome, containiing pale greenish zones. It consists of calcium carbonate, with zones and cloudings of talc.

Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partri…