calc-spar

American  

[kalk-spahr] / ˈkælkˌspɑr /

Or calcspar

noun

1. calcite.

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Etymology

Origin of calc-spar

1815–25; < Swedish kalkspat calc-spar; t > r by association with spar ³; see calc-

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Example Sentences

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calc-spar

These shells are built up of little crystals of calc-spar, and to form these crystals the structural force had to deal with the intangible molecules of carbonate of lime.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

In some parts, the rauchwacke is the predominating rock, and has its cells beautifully powdered with crystals of quartz or of calc-spar, and contains layers of chert of a milky colour.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

If you pass the same carbonic acid over the very quicklime thus obtained, you will obtain carbonate of lime again; but it will not be calc-spar, or anything like it.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

The stone has a gray colour and bituminous smell, and contains much interspersed calc-spar.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

The strata have generally a slight dip to the northward, and the most common Rock is a yellowish-gray dolomite which has a very compact structure, but presents some shining facets of disseminated calc-spar.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

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