[
UK
/kˈælsaɪt/
]
[ US /ˈkæɫˌsaɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈkæɫˌsaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone
How To Use calcite In A Sentence
- Calcite and ankerite are present, but the most abundant carbonate is magnesite.
- A preliminary review of the local mineralogy was subsequently written by Endlich, who noted the presence of aragonite, chabazite, calcite, mesolite, and natrolite, in addition to ‘leucite.’
- Cuprite occurred along with chalcocite as inclusions in small calcite crystals.
- Calcite splits incoming rays of light in two, known as birefringence. Sunstones could have helped Vikings navigate from Norway to America
- Reinvestigation of dioptase-plancheite pseudomorphs after calcite from the Tantara copper deposit Katanga, Republique du Congo. OpEdNews - Diary: Humanitarian Crisis in Gorilla Habitat
- The way on is a traverse round a mud bank to the left, which climbs into a passage above the calcite floor.
- The calcite typically occurs as colorless to white discoidal crystals about 4 cm across; however, individual crystals to 30 cm are known.
- Quartz is the dominant mineral in veins in siliceous rocks, calcite in limestones, and gypsum in gypsiferous sediments.
- Most such specimens are partially coated with a druse of calcite, epidote, and small, clear needle quartz crystals.
- Although the quartz encrustation protects the calcite from dissolving, it obscures the twinned nature of the crystals, which is revealed by mechanical removal of the crust.