"Calcite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sacrilege that they have wrought. "As for Lugalzaggisi," he says, "patesi of Gishkhu, may his goddess Nidaba bear on her head (the weight of ) this transgression!" Now the name of Lugalzaggisi has been found upon a number of fragments of vases made of white calcite stalagmite which were discovered by Mr. Haynes during his excavations at Nippur. All the vases were engraved with the same inscription, so that it was possible by piecing the fragments of text together to obtain a more or less complete copy of ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery • L.W. King and H.R. Hall
... pent-up waters or the sharp explosions of great trees cracking in the fierce cold. But he was glad of the prospect of renewed hard work upon his claim, of promising toil to expose further the great silver-bearing veins of calcite that wound their way through the harder rock. He knew that his find was of the sort that had flooded the Nipissing and the Gowganda countries with eager searchers and delvers, and created villages and even towns in a wilderness where formerly the moose wandered in the great hardwood swamps and ...
— The Peace of Roaring River • George van Schaick
... and didymium have been lately investigated by Drs. Hillebrand and Norton, in Bunsen's laboratory. Cerium looks like iron, having both its color and lustre, but is heavier, and has the hardness of calcite. It tarnishes slowly in dry air and rapidly in moist air. It ignites so readily that pieces scratched off inflame, and its wire burns more brilliantly than magnesium wire. Lauthanum is a little harder, but also ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... has a hardness of 1 Rock Salt has a hardness of 2 Calcite has a hardness of 3 Fluorite has a hardness of 4 Apatite has a hardness of 5 Feldspar has a hardness of 6 Quartz has a hardness of 7 Topaz has a hardness of 8 Corundum has a hardness of 9 Diamond has a hardness ...
— The Working of Steel - Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel • Fred H. Colvin
... polarized light the calcareous substance is discovered to be everywhere crystallized, and this suggests the question whether the carbonate has here taken the form of aragonite or of calcite. Examination has shown it to be the latter. The density of the globules (2.58) is similar to that of ordinary varieties of calcite. It is probable that if the operation were to take place under the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various |
