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Acinous
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of acini, or minute granular concretions; as, acinose or acinous glands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Aggregate
verb · 78% connection
To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Aggregation
noun · 78% connection
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Apatite
noun · 78% connection
Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Argentine
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Barilla
noun · 78% connection
A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Bergmeal
noun · 78% connection
An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Bitter spar
unknown · 78% connection
A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Calciferous
adjective · 78% connection
Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Calcification
noun · 78% connection
The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
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: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
Chalk
noun · 78% connection
A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variety, calcite, calcium, carbonate, consisting.
