Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Calcite
Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). The other polymorphs are the minerals aragonite and vaterite. Aragonite will change to calcite at 470 °C, and vaterite is even less stable.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Geography
- Category: Physical geography
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Mobile communications Category: Mobile phones
Augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that combines real-world information with computer-generated images and content, and is presented blended in a ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Marouane937
0
Terms
58
Blossaries
3
Followers
The Most Influential Rock Bands of the 1970s
Category: Entertainment 1 6 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Poker(470)
- Chess(315)
- Bingo(205)
- Consoles(165)
- Computer games(126)
- Gaming accessories(9)
Games(1301) Terms
- General packaging(1147)
- Bag in box(76)
Packaging(1223) Terms
- Hand tools(59)
- Garden tools(45)
- General tools(10)
- Construction tools(2)
- Paint brush(1)
Tools(117) Terms
- Marketing communications(549)
- Online advertising(216)
- Billboard advertising(152)
- Television advertising(72)
- Radio advertising(57)
- New media advertising(40)
Advertising(1107) Terms
- Health insurance(1657)
- Medicare & Medicaid(969)
- Life insurance(359)
- General insurance(50)
- Commercial insurance(4)
- Travel insurance(1)