dolomite
IPA: dˈoʊɫʌmaɪt
noun
- (mineralogy) An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂; it also exists as the rock dolostone.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Dolomites
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Examples of "dolomite" in Sentences
- Magnesium (to make magnesium chloride) comes from dolomite, the principle ore of magnesium.
- Pistorius was born in 1986 in Johannesburg to Sheila and Henke, who works in dolomite mining.
- MgCO3 are referred to as "dolomite" or as dolomitic limestone, and those containing between 5 -20 % MgCO3, as magnesian limestone.
- There it will be forced into spaces in a type of limestone called Knox dolomite, which is found beneath much of Kentucky and the region.
- About half the material was "non-fibrous" including polystyrene foam, vermiculite mineral, combustion product carbon soot, mineral dust of gypsum, calcite, dolomite and quartz.
- Known as the "Pale Mountains," they boast a chemical composition dubbed dolomite stratified calcium magnesium carbonate, deposited more than 230 million years ago when seawater covered the region.
- Before I start writing about a couple of stone knives indigenous to East Texas, I suggest you keep in mind nearly all of the previously discussed knives have been made out of a high quality chert or a piece of dolomite which is the material known as Alibates flint.
- A protective wall of dolomite and earth – 610 yards (620 meters) long, with an average height of nearly 9 feet (2.7 meters) – has been built in Kolontar to shield the area from further spills of the red sludge, a highly caustic waste produced when making alumina, which is used to make aluminum.
- Thus the sulphate constitutes the minerals anhydrite, alabaster, gypsum, and selenite; the carbonate occurs dissolved in most natural waters and as the minerals chalk, marble, calcite, aragonite; also in the double carbonates such as dolomite, bromlite, barytocalcite; the fluoride as fluorspar; the fluophosphate constitutes the mineral apatite; while all the more important mineral silicates contain a proportion of this element.
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