Limestone
['laɪmstəʊn] or ['laɪmston]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals.
贝弗莉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
錄入:提托
例句/造句/用法:
- Besides air this process required as raw materials limestone and coke. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Had the different strata of clay, gravel, marble, coals, limestone, sand, minerals, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The viaduct is constructed of limestone and iron lattice-work, and is calculated to bear 7,200 tons. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In cement-making, generally speaking, cement rock and limestone in the rough are mixed together in such relative quantities as may be determined upon in advance by chemical analysis. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Still later Hall introduced chalk and powdered limestone into porcelain tubes, gun barrels, and tubes bored in solid iron, which he sealed and brought to very high temperatures. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was modelled on that of Athens,—a large semicircle hewn out of the volcanic rock, with seats of the red limestone so frequent in Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The limestone must be burned to quicklime and the quicklime and coke must be fused together to form calcium carbide. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- All these limestone upper basins must be full of caves, he thought. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
校對:普拉特