Definitions for calc-spar

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Spelling: [kalk-spahr]
IPA: /ˈkælkˌspɑr/

Calc-Spar is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in calc-spar (-aacclprs).

Definitions for calc-spar

noun

  1. calcite.

Origin of calc-spar

1815-25; Swedish kalkspat calc-spar; t > r by association with spar3; see calc-

Examples for calc-spar

It is harder than gypsum, but not so hard as calc-spar; flexible and elastic; spec.

Its beds are from one to two feet thick, and much intersected by small veins of calc-spar.

Argentine, a silvery-white slaty variety of calc-spar, containing a little silica with lamin usually undulated.

The external form of the prism may thus be similar to the Hartnack, the calc-spar being replaced by glass.

calc-spar will not supply the place of flint, nor lead the place of steel, in the production of fire by collision.

It is considered by Dr. Feussner to be the most perfect prism capable of being prepared from calc-spar.

The minerals composing the veins are either quartz, calc-spar, or sulphate of baryta.

In calc-spar, as just stated, the ordinary ray is the most refracted.

The end surfaces and also the cut carried through the prism are parallel to the principal axis of the calc-spar.

He invented a machine for the cutting of crystals from calc-spar.

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