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Webster 1913 Edition
Aragonite
A-rag′o-nite
,Noun.
[From
Aragon
, in Spain.] (Min.)
A mineral composed of calcium carbonate and identical in composition with calcite, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
aragonite (countable and uncountable, plural aragonites)
- (mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3; it is dimorphous with calcite.
Translations
saline evaporate
Derived terms
- ↑ Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997