10 adjectives to describe carbonates

All sorts of limestones are composed of more or less pure carbonate of lime.

It carries in it carbonic acid; and that acid, beating in shower after shower against the face of a cliff especially if it be a limestone cliffweathers the rock chemically; changing (in case of limestone) the insoluble carbonate of lime into a soluble bicarbonate, and carrying that away in water, which, however clear, is still hard.

The specimens from this place have evidently the structure of stalactites, which seem to have been formed in sand; and the reddish carbonate of lime, by which the sand has been agglutinated, is of the same character with that of the west coast, where a similar concreted limestone occurs in great abundance.

If the latter be in place, which, although probable, was not ascertained beyond all question, the primitive carbonate of lime has exactly the same relation to the slaty rocks which it bears in the latter locality.

Twenty parts of the ash were soluble and largely potassium carbonate, the insoluble being iron for the most part.

The immediate effect of this is that a proportion of the carbonic acid of the latter combines with the invisible lime of the clear lime water, forming a chalky precipitate, while the loss of this proportion of carbonic acid also reduces the invisible bicarbonates into visible carbonates.

It combines with lime and potash; and probably the earthy matter of these excavations contains a good proportion of calcareous carbonate.

Two varieties of a calcareous rock, of the same nature with that of Dirk Hartog's Island; consisting of particles of translucent quartzose sand, united by a cement of yellowish or cream-coloured carbonate of lime, which has a flat conchoidal and splintery fracture, and is so hard as to yield with difficulty to the knife.

Owing to the carbonates that are always present in sewage, ferrous carbonate is also formed.

According to M. Landgerbe, a mixture of two parts nitre, two parts neutral carbonate of potash, one part of sulphur, and six parts of common salt, all finely pulverized, makes a very powerful fulminating powder.

10 adjectives to describe  carbonates