EARTHS. CALCAREOUS. 17. Marmor. 



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Found in ancient primitive mountains, in vafi: flrata, and with 

 rarely the veftigcs of anima] bodies, in Tinljnd^ Saxony, 

 SivcffeiZy Bohcmiay near Carrara, in the iflands Paros and 

 jintiparosy and moft mountainous countries, and is frequently 

 the material of ancient buildings : fometimes it contains a 

 portion of quartz, fo that it effc-rvcfces flowly with acids, and 

 ftri?ies fire with rtcci : when broken it is a little fhining, and 

 has a lamellar grained texture. 



pbosphore- Compa<!^, diaphanous, fiiowy, emitting light in the dark 

 um. when rubbed too-ether. 



Cray don Cai. Miner. Coll. Nazar. Rom^ 1 . ^. 1 1;6, I 57. 

 Found in primitive ftrata in the mountains Vrfwoius and Otta^ 

 jar.o, and nearly diilblves in nitric acid wica a ftron^ effer* 

 vefcence. If rubbed together in the dark, or thrown in the 

 form of powder upon heated iron, it emits a phofphorefcent 

 light. 



Dohtfiiai% EfFervcfcing (lowly with acids, covering itfelf with a vi- 

 treous coating in the fire, . 



Sa^JJhre Journ. Phyf, 1792. l. p. l6l» 



Dolomite. KJr<zvan miner, i. p. 11!, 



Dolomite, Ihom/on chemijiryy ^ /. 609. 



Found in the Tyrohfe m )untains, with hardly anv luftre or 

 tranfparency, and breaking into convex fra^inent.s, does not 

 moulder by expofuie to the atmoipheric air ; contains carbo- 

 nate of lime 4,429. alumina 0,586. magnefia 1,4. iron 

 0,074. carbonic acid gas 4,61. 



elasticum. Elaflic, yellovvilh-whltc, emitting a phofphorefcent light 

 when thrown on red hot iron. 

 Fleurian yourn. Phvf 1792. 

 EU ft ic marble. Kirivan mineral. \. p. 113, 

 Found on Mount Gothard in S-witzerlandy in large msiTes : fur- 

 face rough and uneven ; flightly flexible and evidently elaftic 

 when its length exceed- 11 or 12 times its thicknefs : efFer- 

 vefces and diiTolves very flowly with acids: contains carbo-' 

 nate of lime 0,322. alumina andiron 0,175. mica 0,005. 

 magnefia 0,035. carbonic anid gas 4,638, 



i<juamosum. Granular, compa6f, fcaly. 



Lap. calcar, part, iquam. Cronjl. 7nin. fed, 9. I. 



Schuphichte Kalkftcin, ISofeortb. Br. iiieb. 2. p. 4. 



Found in Grapenburgy Finlandy and Snueden, conllituting the 

 principal part of hmple mountains, and containing no vefti- 

 gcs of living bodies: colour white, or reddiih-yellow: pro- 

 duces an indifferent quicklime^ 



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