calcite
pronunciation
How to pronounce calcite in British English:
UK [ˈkælsaɪt]
How to pronounce calcite in American English:
US [ˈkælˌsaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone
Word Origin
- calcite (n.)
- crystalling calcium carbonate, 1849, from German Calcit, coined by Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Karl von Hardinger (1795-1871) from Latin calx (genitive calcis) "lime" (see chalk (n.)) + mineral suffix -ite (2) (German -it).
Example
- 1. Iceland spar is a form of calcite that splits light into two beams .
- 2. Mineral composition with mica is given priority to , time for chlorite , quartz , a small amount of pyrite and calcite .
- 3. The white cliffs of dover on england 's east coast are the towering remains of a calcite land bridge that once connected england with mainland europe .
- 4. This is a large calcite crystal recovered from a vessel that went down off the coast of alderney , in the channel islands , in elizabethan times .
- 5. We then used a quartz calcite , which has an effect on light that depends on the direction the light is propagating , to measure the direction as a function of position .