dolomite

dolomite

See also: Dolomite

English

Dolomite

Etymology

From French dolomite, coined March 1792 by Nicolas de Saussure,[1] named after French mineralogist and engineer Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801) who described the stone in 1791[2] by adding -ite, from place name Dolomieu, Isère.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒl.əˌmaɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.ləˌmaɪt/, /ˈdɑl.əˌmaɪt/

Noun

dolomite (countable and uncountable, plural dolomites)

1. (mineralogy) An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂; it also exists as the rock dolostone.

   Synonym: magnesian limestone

Derived terms

• dolomite rock
• dolomitic
• dolostone
• Dolomites

Translations

mineral

Catalan: dolomita f Chinese: Mandarin: 白雲石／白云石 (zh) (báiyúnshí), 白雲岩／白云岩 (zh) (báiyúnyán) Danish: dolomit (da) c Esperanto: dolomito Estonian: dolomiit Finnish: dolomiitti (fi) Galician: dolomita f German: Dolomit m Greek: δολομίτης (el) m (dolomítis) Italian: dolomite (it) f Kazakh: доломит (dolomit) Korean: 백운암(白雲岩) (baegunam) Kyrgyz: доломит (dolomit) Macedonian: доломи́т m (dolomít) Malayalam: ഡോളമൈറ്റ് (ḍōḷamaiṟṟŭ) Norwegian: Bokmål: dolomitt m Nynorsk: dolomitt m Polish: dolomit (pl) m Portuguese: dolomita f Serbo-Croatian: dolomit (sh) m Spanish: dolomita f Thai: โดโลไมต์

See also

• Dolomites

References

1. Gardien, Guy (2002). "Introduction". Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (in French). Editions Publibook. p. 9. →ISBN.
2. Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Further reading

• dolomite on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.lɔ.mit/

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Noun

dolomite f (plural dolomites)

1. dolomite

Further reading

• “dolomite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.loˈmi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: do‧lo‧mì‧te

Noun

dolomite f (plural dolomiti)

1. (mineralogy) dolomite

Anagrams

• demolito