| NOUN | substance | calcium carbonate | a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone |
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| Meaning | A salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone. | |
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| Narrower | dripstone | The form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites |
| Broader | carbonate | A salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) |
| Substance of | calcite | A common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate |
| chalk | A soft whitish calcite | |
| Spanish | carbonato cálcico, carbonato de calcio | |
| Catalan | carbonat càlcic, carbonat de calci | |
| Adjectives | calcareous, chalky | composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk |
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