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Definition of Calcium carbonate

1. Noun. A salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone.

Definition of Calcium carbonate

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) A colourless or white inorganic compound, CaCO₃, occurring as chalk, limestone, marble etc; reacts with acids to liberate carbon dioxide. ¹

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Medical Definition of Calcium carbonate

1. An astringent, an antacid (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcium Carbonate

Literary usage of Calcium carbonate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"Such 'calcium carbonate waters are characteristic not only of superficial ... Waters of this calcium carbonate type are common and, when encountered as ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"calcium carbonate will remain in solution In ordinary samples of water to the extent ... calcium carbonate alone does not form a hard scale in boilers but ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"So since calcium carbonate may be made from calcium, carbon and oxygen, we argue that these elements and these only are contained in calcium carbonate. ..."

4. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1880)
"The contents of the filter are then dried and bottled. Te»ts.—calcium carbonate for use as a flux, must be free from salts of the fixed alkalies. ..."

5. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"Treating calcium carbonate and calcium sulphate as one, it would take the ... The amount oj calcium carbonate which may have been in solution in the sea. ..."

6. The Tidal and Other Problems by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Forest Ray Moulton, Charles Sumner Slichter, William Duncan MacMillan, Arthur Constant Lunn, Julius Stieglitz (1909)
"The most reliable and complete experimental determinations of the solubility of calcium carbonate in water containing free carbonic acid were made by ..."

7. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1905)
"That is the weakest acid known, and you can bring calcium carbonate or sodium ... If you were to add to calcium carbonate sulphuric acid—and the only ..."

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