Definition of "calc-spar" [calc•-spar]

• Same as calcite. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "If you pass the same carbonic acid over the very quicklime thus obtained, you will obtain carbonate of lime again; but it will not be calc-spar, nor anything like it."
• "The statement that a crystal of calc-spar consists of carbonate of lime, is quite true, if we only mean that, by appropriate processes, it may be resolved into carbonic acid and quicklime."
• "Can it, therefore, be said that chemical analysis teaches nothing about the chemical composition of calc-spar?"