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noun - (mineralogy) a saline evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate; it also exists as the rock dolostone
Etymology: After the French mineralogist and engineer Déodat de Dolomieu (1750-1801) in 1791.<ref>Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997</ref>
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