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calcite (n.)
crystalling calcium carbonate, 1849, from German
Calcit
, coined by Austrian mineralogist Wilhelm Karl von Hardinger (1795-1871) from Latin
calx
(genitive
calcis
) "lime" (see
chalk
(n.)) + mineral suffix
-ite
(2) (German
-it
).
