limestone
IPA: ɫˈaɪmstoʊn
noun
- An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
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Examples of "limestone" in Sentences
- The tools are of limestone and quartz.
- The substratum of the whole is limestone.
- The limestone is used in the production of cement.
- It occurs in the rocky limestone areas of the cays.
- The exterior of the building is clad with limestone.
- The summit is and is composed of crystalline limestone.
- The paving of the nave is of limestone or granite slabs.
- The sedimentary rocks can be classified with limestones.
- Most of the bedrock of the mountain is limestone and granite.
- The sinkhole originates in peat and then cuts into limestone rock.
- The building, clad in limestone, was built in 1917 and has only 12 apartments.
- Her mother worked in limestone pits exposing her to excessive amounts of fluoride while pregnant.
- Thus, what we call limestone is a more or less pure calcareous earth in combination with a delicate acid, which is familiar to us in the form of a gas.
- It is scarcely more previous than the underlying limestones, and why a solution that could penetrate and leach ores from it should be stopped at the upper surface of the blue limestone is not obvious; nor why the plane of junction between the porphyry and the _blue limestone_ should be the special place of deposit of the ore.
- (from thirty to forty feet long), with rudiments of branches and medullary concentric layers, coming perhaps from tertiary sandstone with lignites; * (* Formation of molassus.); chalk with spatangi and anachytes, Jura limestone with nummulites partly agatized; another fine-grained limestone* employed in the construction of the temple of
- In examining the specimens collected by the indefatigable Caillaud in the Lybian desert and the Oasis of Siwa, we recognize sandstone similar to that of Thebes; fragments of petrified dicotyledonous wood (from thirty to forty feet long), with rudiments of branches and medullary concentric layers, coming perhaps from tertiary sandstone with lignites; * chalk with spatangi and anachytes, Jura limestone with nummulites partly agatized; another fine-grained limestone* employed in the construction of the temple of Jupiter Ammon (Omm – Beydah); and gem-salt with sulphur and bitumen.
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