calcite
A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.
Kinds of calcite
- chalk
Related words
- barytocalcite
- calcitic
- chlorocalcite
- ferrocalcite
- hydrocalcite
- nitrocalcite
- ferro-calcite
- manganocalcite
- pentahydrocalcite
- plumbocalcite
- silico-borocalcite
Word history
From Latin "calx".
Where this comes from
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