limestone
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Origin of limestone
1- Compare marble.
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How to use limestone in a sentence
Among the piles of specimens were six large slabs of limestone.
Smugglers almost made off with a near-complete fossil of a bizarre flying reptile | Hannah Seo | August 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceFor now, you can ride 195 miles of its crushed limestone from the town of Norfolk in the east to Valentine in the west.
With limestone outcroppings, rocky terrain, and vast, dry prairies, Missouri’s 12,423-acre Hercules-Glades Wilderness is a mish-mash of Ozark Mountain terrain.
For limestone, he estimates that the number could be as much as twice that, because of the heat required to process the rock.
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Buy a Sustainable Wetsuit | wtaylor | July 23, 2021 | Outside OnlineThat process would convert calcium oxide back into calcium carbonate, the main component of limestone, at which point the process can simply begin again.
A startup using minerals to draw down CO2 has scored funding—and its first buyer | James Temple | May 26, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
So he and the scouts dug into a limestone hill and built a factory in record speed.
The ship, which was carrying a consignment of limestone, broke in half.
Prince William's Dramatic Rescue Mission Boosts Royals' Image | Tom Sykes | November 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTMiddlebury is gorgeous, with big, open quads and limestone buildings that echo Yale's.
The soul of his output in this period: a series of 20 limestone heads, evocative of African sculpture.
For instance, the limestone Polypody is not happy unless there is a certain amount of lime present in the soil.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard BastinThe train had long passed Hornberg, and far below the streams tumbled in white foam down the limestone rocks.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodA band of limestone also occurs at Templeton containing masses of a light-coloured translucent serpentine.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesAn abundance of limestone makes the soil exceptionally fertile and productive.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyWe were now in the "limestone country," and the roads are exceedingly dusty in dry weather.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. Murphy
British Dictionary definitions for limestone
/ (ˈlaɪmˌstəʊn) /
a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium carbonate, deposited as the calcareous remains of marine animals or chemically precipitated from the sea: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of cement, lime, etc
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Scientific definitions for limestone
[ līm′stōn′ ]
A sedimentary rock consisting primarily of calcium carbonate, often in the form of the minerals calcite or aragonite, and sometimes with magnesium carbonate in the form of dolomite. Minor amounts of silica, feldspar, pyrite, and clay may also be present. Limestone can occur in many colors but is usually white, gray, or black. It forms either through the accumulation and compaction of fossil shells or other calcium-carbonate based marine organisms, such as coral, or through the chemical precipitation of calcium carbonate out of sea water.
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Cultural definitions for limestone
Sedimentary rock formed primarily of calcium carbonate, often the skeletons of small marine organisms.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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