AllWords.com Home

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search

  
Definitions
dolomite Twit Definition of dolomite Share Definition of dolomite on Facebook Digg:Definition of dolomite! stumble Definition of dolomite Bookmark Definition of dolomite on Delicious submit Definition of dolomite to reddit Bookmark Definition of dolomite
noun 
  1. (mineralogy) a saline evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate; it also exists as the rock dolostone
Translations: 
    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>

         Source Definition of dolomite
      

     Find:
      Words Starting With:
      Words Ending With:
      Words Containing:
      Words That Match:

     
     Translate Into:
      
    Dutch   French   German
      
    Italian   Spanish
        Show results per page.

    Google
     

    Browse the Dictionary
    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

     
      green quotes and commentary

       
    Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License
    Allwords Copyright 1998-2009 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.