dolomite
noun
a very common mineral, calcium magnesium carbonate, CaMg(CO3 ) 2 , occurring in crystals and in masses.
dolomitic
-
a word derived from
dolomite.
Example Sentences
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It also has a smaller and highly profitable specialty-materials business that makes products including dolomitic lime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The inorganic formation of dolomite alone is too inefficient to explain the importance of dolomitic rocks in the stratigraphic record.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 21, 2012
It cuts through granite and quartz, along fault lines and beneath a sugarlike layer of dolomitic marble—a sand trap to anything going through it.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 15, 2008
An even bed of limestone, dolomitic, was formed by the myriads of shell-fish that subsisted in this shallow sea.
It is said that the dolomitic city owes its name, Montpellier-le-Vieux, to the shepherds of Lower Languedoc, who from time immemorial have brought their flocks in summer to pasture upon these highlands.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
