CALCIUM CARBONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcium carbonate mean? 

• CALCIUM CARBONATE (noun)
  The noun CALCIUM CARBONATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone

  Familiarity information: CALCIUM CARBONATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCIUM CARBONATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("calcium carbonate" is a kind of...):

carbonate (a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calcium carbonate"):

dripstone (the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites)

Holonyms ("calcium carbonate" is a substance of...):

chalk (a soft whitish calcite)

calcite (a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone)

 Context examples 

Maalox is also available as a chewable tablet containing calcium carbonate.

(Maalox, NCI Thesaurus)

Marine zooplankton that passively float or weakly swim, and have calcium carbonate skeletons that are present in large numbers on the surface of the ocean.

(Planktonic Foraminifera, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Detrital carbonate is more resistant to dissolution compared to the calcium carbonate produced by plankton that falls directly to the seafloor.

(Detrital carbonate, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A measurement of the calcium carbonate crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Calcium Carbonate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Single-celled animals that live near the sediment water interface and have calcium carbonate skeletons.

(Benthic Foraminifera, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

An eggshell is made up of both organic and inorganic matter that contains calcium carbonate.

(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)

Stalagmites are cave pillars made largely of calcium carbonate or limestone, in association with trace elements such as magnesium, that is precipitated by rainwater.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

The determination of the amount of calcium carbonate crystals present in a sample.

(Calcium Carbonate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The absorption alters the water's chemistry, lowering its pH and reducing the amount of available carbonate, which organisms such as corals and pteropods (mollusks) use to construct their calcium carbonate shells.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

Vaterite is not very stable in the Earth’s humid atmosphere as it often reverts to more common forms of calcium carbonate, such as calcite.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)