calc-spar

American  

[kalk-spahr] / ˈkælkˌspɑr /

Or calcspar

noun

1. calcite.

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Etymology

Origin of calc-spar

1815–25; < Swedish kalkspat calc-spar; t > r by association with spar ³; see calc-

Example Sentences

The stone has a gray colour and bituminous smell, and contains much interspersed calc-spar.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

At Point De Witt Clinton, a compact blackish-blue limestone, traversed by veins of calc-spar, forms a bed thirty feet thick,217218219 which reposes on thin layers of a soft, compact, light, bluish-gray limestone or marl.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

Its structure is compact, with little lustre, except from facets of disseminated calc-spar.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

In this group calc-spar or dolomite wholly replaces the quartz and films of argillaceous matter, of which, especially in Scotland, micaceous schist is usually composed.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

The basis, in most of the beds, is calc-spar; but in some small layers it is calcareous sand.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John