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Calcium carbonate   /kˈælsiəm kˈɑrbənˌeɪt/   Listen
Calcium carbonate

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





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"Calcium carbonate" Quotes from Famous Books



... made with neutral nitro-glycerine, appears to keep indefinitely. Sodium or calcium carbonate to the extent of 1 per cent. is often added to dynamite to ensure its being neutral. If it has commenced to undergo change, however, it rapidly becomes acid, and sometimes explodes spontaneously, especially if contained in resisting envelopes. Nevertheless, neutral and well-made dynamite has been ...
— Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise • P. Gerald Sanford
... other anaerobic bacteria which decompose cellulose, probably hydrolysing it first and then splitting the products into carbon dioxide and marsh gas. When calcium sulphate is present, the nascent methane induces the formation of calcium carbonate, sulphuretted hydrogen and water. We have thus an explanation of the occurrence of marsh gas and sulphuretted hydrogen in bogs, and it is highly probable that the existence of these gases in the intestines of herbivorous ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various


Words linked to "Calcium carbonate" :   carbonate, calcite, dripstone, chalk


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