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From lime + stone.
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limestone (countable and uncountable, plural limestones)
- An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
a limestone viaduct
1939 July, “What the Railways are Doing: The New Ebbw Vale Steelworks”, in Railway Magazine, page 68:As each blast furnace uses 200 tons of limestone daily, and each limestone kiln 150 tons, a total of 730 tons of limestone has to be carried daily, in addition to limestone chippings, which are sold.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
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abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments
- Albanian: gur gëlqeror m
- Arabic: حَجَر جِيرِيّ m (ḥajar jīriyy), حَجَر كِلْسِيّ m (ḥajar kilsiyy)
- Armenian: կրաքար (hy) (krakʻar)
- Azerbaijani: əhəngdaşı (az)
- Belarusian: вапня́к m (vapnják)
- Bengali: ঘুটিং (bn) (ghuṭiṅ)
- Bulgarian: варо́вик (bg) (varóvik)
- Burmese: ထုံးကျောက် (my) (htum:kyauk)
- Catalan: pedra calcària
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 石灰岩 (zh) (shíhuīyán), 灰岩 (huīyán), 青石 (zh) (qīngshí) (colloquial)
- Classical Nahuatl: tenextetl
- Czech: vápenec (cs) m
- Danish: kalksten (da) c
- Dutch: kalksteen (nl) n
- Esperanto: kalkoŝtono (eo)
- Estonian: lubjakivi
- Finnish: kalkkikivi (fi)
- French: calcaire (fr) m
- Galician: calcaria (gl) f
- Georgian: კირქვა (ḳirkva)
- German: Kalkstein (de) m, Calciumcarbonat n, Kalk (de) m
- Greek: ασβεστόλιθος (el) m (asvestólithos)
- Hebrew: גִּיר (he) m (gir), אֶבֶן גִּיר f (even gir)
- Hindi: चूना पत्थर m (cūnā patthar)
- Hungarian: mészkő (hu)
- Icelandic: kalksteinn (is)
- Indonesian: batu kapur (id)
- Ingrian: kalkki, kalkkikivi
- Irish: aolchloch f, cloch aoil f
- Italian: calcare (it) m
- Japanese: 石灰岩 (ja) (せっかいがん, sekkaigan)
- Kazakh: әктас (kk) (äktas)
- Khmer: ថ្មកំបោរ (thmɑɑ kɑmbao), កំបោរថ្ម (kɑmbao thmɑɑ)
- Korean: 석회암(石灰岩) (ko) (seokhoeam)
- Kyrgyz: акиташ (ky) (akitaş)
- Lao: ຫິນປູນ (hin pūn)
- Latin: calx f
- Latvian: kaļķakmens m
- Lithuanian: klintis m
- Macedonian: варовник m (varovnik)
- Malay: batu kapur
- Maori: pākeho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: шохойн чулуу (šoxojn čuluu)
- Norman: pièrre dé caux f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kalkstein m
- Nynorsk: kalkstein m
- Occitan: calcari (oc) m, calquièr m
- Persian: سنگ آهک (sang âhak)
- Pitjantjatjara: arpata
- Plautdietsch: Kaulkjsteen n
- Polish: wapień (pl) m
- Portuguese: calcário (pt) m
- Romanian: calcar (ro) n
- Russian: известня́к (ru) m (izvestnják)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кре̏чња̄к m, вапне́нац m
- Roman: krȅčnjāk (sh) m, vapnénac (sh) m
- Slovak: vápenec (sk) m
- Slovene: apnenec (sl) m
- Spanish: caliza (es) f
- Swedish: kalksten (sv) c
- Tajik: оҳаксанг (ohaksang)
- Tatar: известьташ (izwest’taş)
- Thai: หินปูน (th) (hǐn-bpuun)
- Tibetan: རྡོ་ཐལ་རྡོ (rdo thal rdo), རྡོ་ཐལ་བྲག (rdo thal brag)
- Turkish: kireç taşı (tr)
- Turkmen: hek daşy
- Ukrainian: вапня́к (uk) m (vapnják)
- Urdu: چونا پتھر m (cūnā patthar)
- Uyghur: ھاك تېشى (hak tëshi)
- Uzbek: ohaktosh (uz)
- Vietnamese: đá vôi (vi)
- Welsh: calchfaen (cy) m, carreg galch f
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made of or with limestone
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