calc-spar
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of calc-spar
1815–25; < Swedish kalkspat calc-spar; t > r by association with spar 3; see calc-
Example Sentences
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Ar�gentine, a silvery-white slaty variety of calc-spar, containing a little silica with lamin� usually undulated.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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 end surfaces and also the cut carried through the prism are parallel to the principal axis of the calc-spar.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. 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 Franklin, John
He invented a machine for the cutting of crystals from calc-spar.
From History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers by Blakeslee, B. F.
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