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-ferous
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Alabaster
noun · 78% connection
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Allomorph
noun · 78% connection
Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Amygdaloid
noun · 78% connection
A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Aragonite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its ph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Argentine
noun · 78% connection
A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Asphaltum
noun · 78% connection
A composition of bitumen, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Auriferous
adjective · 78% connection
Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Bearing
noun · 78% connection
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Bicarbonate
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Brat
noun · 78% connection
A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Bromlife
noun · 78% connection
A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Calcareous
adjective · 78% connection
Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Calcination
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Calcite
noun · 78% connection
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Cleche
adjective · 78% connection
Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Dimorphism
noun · 78% connection
Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
Dolomite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bearing, producing, containing, calcite, carbonate.
