calc-sinter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of calc-sinter
From the German word Kalksinter, dating back to 1815–25. See calc-, sinter
Example Sentences
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These concretions have a straight cleavage in the direction of their short axis, and are often coated by fibrous calc-sinter and calcedony.
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They are for the most part incrusted with calc-sinter; and the rounded blocks of gneiss, which have all the outward appearance of solidity, have been so disintegrated by the carbonic acid as readily to fall to pieces.
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As far as he was able to travel inland, the surface was p. 21composed of secondary limestone, partially covered with a thin layer of calc-sinter.
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On this also depends the formation of stalactites and calc-sinter.
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The hollows in some of the fragments of vesicular lava of which the breccias and conglomerates are composed are partially filled with calc-sinter, being thus half converted into amygdaloids.
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