Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subvariety of calcium carbonate or calcite, popularly known as foam, earth-foam, or foam-spar, occurring in small masses, solid, or tender and friable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) See under
calcite .
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- noun mineralogy A
foliated orchalk -like variety ofcalcite .
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Finely scaly varieties with a pearly lustre are known as argentine and aphrite (German _Schaumspath_); soft, earthy and dull white varieties as agaric mineral, rock-milk, rock-meal, &c. -- these form a transition to marls, chalk, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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