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Calcium   /kˈælsiəm/   Listen
Calcium

noun
1.
A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals.  Synonyms: atomic number 20, Ca.



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"Calcium" Quotes from Famous Books



... Theatre, that if her appearances there were successful she might expect an invitation to membership in the White Rats.... These hypothetical instances would seem ridiculous ... but they are not. The Rodin case puts a by no means seldom-recurring phenomenon in the centre of the stage under a calcium light. The ironclad dreadnaughts of the academic world, the reactionary artists, the dry-as-dust lecturers are constantly ignoring the most vital, the most real, the most important artists while they sing polyphonic, ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... a sporangium of L. tigrinum be mounted in water and treated to weak solution of hydro-chloric acid we may easily discover that the crystals, which so wonderfully adorn the outer wall in this and other species, consist, in part at least, of calcium carbonate. We may also discover that in the case before us the crystal or scale lies indeed enclosed in a filmy sac of organic origin, and that could we have seen the outer peridium as it came to form, we might probably have ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride



Words linked to "Calcium" :   limestone, metal, ca, calcium carbide, calcium carbonate, unslaked lime, factor IV, calcined lime, fluorspar, calcify, fluor, burnt lime, calcium ion, lime, quicklime, gypsum, fluorite, calcium bicarbonate, metallic element, fluxing lime, calx



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