(n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystallographic orientation of the calcite also appears to be independent of these fibrils.
(2) The calcium carbonates-calcite, aragonite, and vaterite-constitute most of the remainder of the calculi.
(3) Crystallographic analysis of stones from patients with nutritional pancreatitis (NP), as well as alcoholic pancreatitis (AP), revealed that the main constituent was calcite (CaCO3).
(4) Calcite was present in all stones, vaterite in 12%, and a central amorphous material in 30%.
(5) X-ray diffraction showed that calcite (CaCO3) was the major crystalline constituent of the calcareous deposits.
(6) When the doped glasses have been immersed in a physiological solution (199 medium), a film of calcite forms on the glass surface and this modification is related to the type of doping agent used, decisive for close linking between metal supports and the glass.
(7) We suggest that precipitation of calcite in the pancreatic duct occurs as the primary event in the formation of pancreatic calculi and that it may continue until the duct is completely occluded.
(8) 5-7): calcite and quartz are the principal components of the sinters, additional diffuse apatite lines appear in bone samples.
(9) These features are characteristic of sea urchin (Echinoderm) spines which are composed of ornately formed calcite crystals covered by an epithelium.
(10) Its absence in all analyzed invertebrate tissues (including calcitic, aragonitic, and apatitic mineral phases) indicates that matrix protein-bound gamma-carboxyglutamic acid is not obligatory for the calcification process in the invertebrates.
(11) Quantitatively, phosphate is by far the most important inhibitor of calcite precipitation present in saliva, suggesting that inhibition of calcite precipitation by the macromolecules may be of secondary significance.
(12) Plates of calcite (CaCO3) were implanted in rabbit tibiae, and their biocompatibility and bonding ability to bone were studied.
(13) Subsequent increase in diameter of the rod involves the radial development of irregular columns of calcite which arise from the peripheral nodules.
(14) The phenomenon of dissolution and recrystallisation in situ of the calcite can be a trap because it can be a reservoir for micro-organisms.
(15) Synechococcus strain GL24 was isolated from Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, where it has a demonstrated role in the formation of calcitic minerals.
(16) Pancreatic stones are observed in both humans and cattle, and are approximately 95% CaCO3 (calcite) in both species.
(17) Skeletal walls of more than one mineralogy have the magnesium-rich layer (calcite) surrounding the living chamber and the strontium-rich layer (aragonite) on the outside.
(18) Here we report on the ability of a soil bacterium to synthesize calcite in a calcium-stressed environment.
(19) Formation of inner protein nidus in the form of a cobweb is the first stage, then calcite is deposited on this fibrous network as tiny crystals.
(20) The biocompatibility of mammal bone with aragonite and calcite skeletons of aquatic invertebrates (Corals, Molluscs) led us, after animal experimentation, to implant in humans artificial dental roots derived from such invertebrates.
Chalk
Definition:
(n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
(n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
(v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.
(v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.
(v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The young screenwriters possibly needed to have chalked up a few miles before they could deliver really workable scripts."
(2) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(3) His flicked header into the net seconds later, chalked off by an offside flag, confirmed the forward's luck was not in.
(4) Inside the first 10 minutes, Boyd hit the bar and Lukas Jutkiewicz saw a goal correctly chalked off for offside, while Danny Ings headed just wide at 2-1, and substitute Ashley Barnes struck the bar late on.
(5) France chalked up growth of 0.5%, beating economists' expectations, the best growth figures Fran ç ois Hollande has seen since he was elected president 15 months ago.
(6) 2) If the board and adjacent ones are firmly fixed, dust talc or chalk through the cracks to stop them rubbing together.
(7) The phrase chalk and cheese springs to mind, or as the French say jour et nuit – day and night.
(8) Remember the Theater People: the gal rigging lights for her community theater's production of The Chalk Garden in Brainerd, Minnesota.
(9) The house was later covered in chalk and finally became a curious white landmark.
(10) It is recommended that overall average and chalk carving be given equal emphasis in the selection process.
(11) HS2’s barrister, James Strachan QC, was listening closely, however, and addressed specific points with a lawyer’s care to make no rash promises: HS2’s noise would be less than traffic on the A413; HS2 were working with the RSPB to “mitigate” for barn owls; and, “If there’s a need for chalk grassland, that’s the sort of thing that can be put into these areas to compensate.” Wendy Gray was allowed to respond: “It’s very difficult to be reassured on an unknown quantity,” she said.
(12) According to the sonographic pattern and to the scintigraphic imaging the focal lesions were analysed as micro- or macrofollicular adenomas, autonomous adenomas, cysts and chalk.
(13) Shortly after arriving in Rome, Las Vegas and Tallinn, however, the lines of gameless resolve I had chalked across my mind were wiped clean.
(14) The economy is forecast to chalk up only 0.75% growth this year, and to contract by 1% in 2009 - which would be the first full year of contraction since 1991.
(15) Look, Newsnight is made by 13-year-olds,” he said, speaking at the Chalke Valley history festival about his new book on the first world war.
(16) A series of 75 spoilt soft lenses with opacities (mostly manifesting as discrete spots or as large areas of cloudiness, chalk-white in appearance) were subjected to histochemical, electron microscopical, electron probe x-ray microanalytical, x-ray diffraction, atomic absorption spectro-photometric, and biochemical analyses.
(17) A suspension of chalk powder was injected into the cavity of the urinary bladder of Fischer 344 rats.
(18) The reactivity of soils varies widely as geological and sedimentological conditions offer typical but different environments: gravels, chalk soil, clay, salt soils, sands, cave earths are examples of this wide variety, including atmospheric and biogenetic implications.
(19) A staircase descends steeply into a network of tunnels and cellars that lead to extraordinary old chalk pits.
(20) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian But to date, the prospect of building on abandoned north Kent chalk quarries, has been so unattractive to housebuilders that they have delivered homes at the rate of just 25 a year when 1,000 a year are needed.