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Bitter spar

A common name of dolomite so called because it contains magnesia the soluble salts of which are bitter See Dolomite...

A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions It occurs in distinct crystals and in extensive beds as a compact limestone often crystalline granular either white or clouded It includes much of the common white marble Also called bitter spar...

dolomize

To convert into dolomite...

dolostone

a stone or rock entirely composed of the mineral dolomite...

Limestone

A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone Crystalline limestone is called marble...

Magnesium

A light silver white metallic element of atomic number 12 malleable and ductile quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air It burns forming the oxide magnesia with the production of a blinding light the so called magnesium light which is used in signaling in pyrotechny or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required Its compounds occur abundantly as in dolomite talc meerschaum etc Symbol Mg Atomic weight 24305 Specific gravity 175...

Phlogopite

A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze red or copperlike color and a pearly luster It is a silicate of aluminia with magnesia potash and some fluorine It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine See Mica...

Rhomb spar

A variety of dolomite...

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