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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>
Noun
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#mineralogy a saline evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate; it also exists as the rock dolostone
Synonyms
magnesian limestone
Translations
Croatian: t+|hr|dolomit|m
Estonian: t-|et|dolomiit
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Finnish: t-|fi|dolomiitti
See also
Dolomites
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