Limestone
['laɪmstəʊn] or ['laɪmston]
Definition
(noun.) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals.
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Definition
(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.
Typist: Tito
Examples
- Besides air this process required as raw materials limestone and coke. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- 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). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Had the different strata of clay, gravel, marble, coals, limestone, sand, minerals, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The viaduct is constructed of limestone and iron lattice-work, and is calculated to bear 7,200 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- 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. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- 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. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The limestone must be burned to quicklime and the quicklime and coke must be fused together to form calcium carbide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- All these limestone upper basins must be full of caves, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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