Calcite in a sentence as a noun

Have lived in a calcite water area, no fun.

... and even then you wouldn't really love computers unless you were quarrying your own calcite and slate.

The second tracks were made through the dry sand into the moist layer which was then crusted over with calcite and covered.

The vacuum itself is polarized, becoming strongly birefringent, like a calcite crystal.

Well worth your time, Dekker!Our H-alpha filter was a "quartz birefringent monochrometer" -- it used a stack of calcite & quartz polarizing filters to get 2 or 3 angstrom bandwidth.

Calcite definitions

noun

a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone