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Definition of Calcites
1. calcite [n] - See also: calcite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcites
Literary usage of Calcites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School of Mines Quarterly by Columbia University School of Chemistry (1902)
"The calcites of several different mineralogical provinces in America have ...
Farrington \ has presented a paper dealing with the well known calcites from ..."
2. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"Siliceous calcites from the Bad Lands of South Dakota; by SL PEN- FIELD and WE
... In chemical composition the crystals resemble the siliceous calcites from ..."
3. A New Basis for Chemistry: A Chemical Philosophy by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"Could we observe sharply marked intervals in the density of various calcites,
... isomorphous species, giving rise to calcites of intermediate densities. ..."
4. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1882)
"The calcites occupy various forms and positions within these iron pyrites, ...
The calcites of this rock, so easily distinguished by their vivid iridescent ..."
5. A Popular Guide to Minerals by Louis Pope Gratacap (1912)
"The calcites are naturally divided into the foreign specimens, including the
English and the superb suites of Guanajuato calcites, those from Lake Superior ..."
6. The Optical Properties of Crystals: With a General Introduction to Their by Paul Groth (1910)
"To sum up: During one whole rotation of one of the two calcites through 360°
there are, as observation shows, only four positions (viz. when the principal ..."
7. The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868: Descriptive Mineralogy by James Dwight Dana, Edward Salisbury Dana (1920)
"1900], Zs Kr., 36, 629; phosphorescent calcites from Fort Collins, Colo., and
Joplin, Mo.; Headden, Am. J. Se., 21, 301. 1906. Union Springs. ..."
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