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  • noun Plural form of calcite.

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  • The other half was fibrous material including "cellulose (wood and paper fragments), fibrous glass such as glass wool with yellow resin coating, Fiberglass, colorless mineral wool, refractory ceramic fibers, limestone, calcites, carbon fibers, synthetics (including fragments of cloth) and chrysotile asbestos associated with the lime and carbonate insulation debris."

    September 11 Toxic Dust: Deciphering My Pocketful Of Terror 2011

  • Also found were "additional chemical signatures of silicates, kaolin clays, pigments (TiO2), calcites, dolomites, carbonates, metal complexes (sub-micron chromium, aluminum/iron matrices) and chrysotile asbestos."

    September 11 Toxic Dust: Deciphering My Pocketful Of Terror 2011

  • When I was in school at Syracuse, I kept used glass Gatorade bottles in the fridge, filled with water, so the water was very cold and readily transportable; over the course of a couple of years in my apartment, the bottoms of these bottles which I hand washed, FWIW became crusted with calcites and various other detritus.

    Bottled Water Is Still A Scam - Anil Dash 2007

  • When I was in school at Syracuse, I kept used glass Gatorade bottles in the fridge, filled with water, so the water was very cold and readily transportable; over the course of a couple of years in my apartment, the bottoms of these bottles which I hand washed, FWIW became crusted with calcites and various other detritus.

    Bottled Water Is Still A Scam - Anil Dash 2007

  • Besides measuring orientation data, we have sampled fault-related calcites and the different zone-parallel layers of fault breccia.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 2 2003

  • If possible, we will date calcites reflecting important tectonic activity by means of U-Th and/or U-Pb dating techniques in order to determine a geochronological evolution of the changing stress fields and the absolute timing of important fault activities.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 2 2003

  • The forty-sixth case is also covered with calcites, including the reastone, the limestone incrusted upon a human skull, found in the

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • Some marble tables are also in this room, placed here to exhibit the beauties of various calcites.

    How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

  • The enhanced dissolution of high-Mg calcites would only occur on reefs and banks, so I don’t know if it would be a full-ocean “fix”.

    Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006

  • This leads to corns and calcites, "says Dr Shetty.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

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