calcium
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Noun (1)
- a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animalsSynonyms: Caatomic number 20Type of metallic element, metalKinds calcium ion, factor IVSubstance of fluorite, gypsum, calcium oxide, limestone
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Noun chemical element of atomic number 20
- Spanish
- calcio
- French
- calcium
- German
- Kalzium
- Italian
- calcio
- Portuguese
- cálcio
- Turkish
- kalsiyum
- Russian
- ка́льций kálʹcij
- Arabic
- كَالْسِيُوم kālsiyūm
- Japanese
- カルシウム karushiumu
- Dutch
- calcium
30 more languages
- Polish
- wapń
- Swedish
- kalcium
- Greek
- ασβέστιο asvéstio
- Korean
- 칼슘 kalsyum
- Indonesian
- kalsium
- Vietnamese
- canxi
- Hungarian
- kalcium
- Portuguese (PT)
- cálcio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 鈣 gài
- Albanian
- kalcium
- Catalan
- calci
- Czech
- vápník
- Danish
- calcium
- Esperanto
- kalcio
- Estonian
- kaltsium
- Finnish
- kalsium
- Georgian
- კალციუმი ḳalciumi
- Hebrew
- סידן sidán
- Icelandic
- kalsín
- Latvian
- kalcijs
- Lithuanian
- kalcis
- Norwegian
- kalsium
- Romanian
- calciu
- Scottish Gaelic
- cailceam
- Serbo-Croatian
- kalcij
- Slovak
- vápnik
- Slovenian
- kalcij
- Swahili
- kalisiamu
- Welsh
- calsiwm
- Yiddish
- קאַלציום kaltsyum
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: NL., from L. calx, calcis, lime; cf F. calcium. See Calx.
Chemistry An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
☞ Calcium is widely and abundantly disseminated, as in its compounds calcium carbonate or limestone, calcium sulphate or gypsum, calcium fluoride or fluor spar, calcium phosphate or apatite.
Calcium light, an intense light produced by the incandescence of a stick or ball of lime in the flame of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or of oxygen and coal gas; — called also Drummond light and lime light.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC