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Encrinital :: Encrinital (a.) Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone..

Chondrodite :: Chondrodite (n.) A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone..

Portland Cement :: Portland cement () A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water..

Oolite :: Oolite (n.) A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of Geology..

Coralline :: Coralline (a.) Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone..

Nitrocalcite :: Nitrocalcite (n.) Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter..

Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..

Limestone :: Limestone (n.) 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..

Chalk :: Chalk (n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone..

Marmorosis :: Marmorosis (n.) The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble..

Carbonate :: Carbonate (n.) A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc..

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

Calcivorous :: Calcivorous (a.) Eroding, or eating into, limestone..

Marble :: Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc..

Saxicava :: Saxicava (n.) Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.

Limekiln :: Limekiln (n.) A kiln or furnace in which limestone or shells are burned and reduced to lime.

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..

Granuliform :: Granuliform (a.) Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone..

Peagrit :: Peagrit (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

Lithodomus :: Lithodomus (n.) A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus..

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