CALCIUM CARBONATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Calcium carbonate

... an element which will unite with oxygen and carbon dioxide to form a compound known as calcium carbonate. The chemist's symbol for ...

— Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement • Alva Agee

... believe, been at the Camp of Chalons for artillery drills. You have seen when the shell bursts how the chalky soil of the Marne effervesces like the inkwells at school, when we used to throw a piece of calcium carbonate into them. Well, it was almost like that, but in the midst of the desert, in the midst of obscurity. The white waters rushed into the depths of the black hole, and rose and rose towards the pedestal on which we stood. And there was the uninterrupted noise of thunder, and still louder, the sound ...

— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit