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exagonal crystals, also massive, generally of a yellow color, containing silica, alumina, lime, soda, and carbon dioxide.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

ommon soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime it constitutes limestone, or common marble and chalk. Plants imbibe it for their nutrition and growth, the carbon being retained and the oxygen given out. -- Carbonic oxide (Chem.), a colorless gas, CO, of a light odor, call…

. -- Carboniferous formation (Geol.), the series of rocks (including sandstones, shales, limestones, and conglomerates, with beds of coal) which make up the strata of the Carboniferous age or period. See the Diagram under Geology.

t of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means.

A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. Shak.

A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland.

the reflecting or refracting curve and the luminous point being in one plane. -- Caustic lime. See under Lime. -- Caustic potash, Caustic soda (Chem.), the solid hydroxides potash, KOH, and soda, NaOH, or solutions of the same. -- Caustic silver, nitrate of silver, lunar caustic. -- Caustic surface (Optics), a surf…

A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

in color from white to yellow or red. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Called also chabasie.

A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones.

h white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.

as, chloride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

nesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. [India] Whitworth.

See Scion. The cion overruleth the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]

ring down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.