calcium carbonate

1. 1.

   a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone

   Broadercarbonate

   Narrowerdripstone

Questions about calcium carbonate

What does calcium carbonate mean?

calcium carbonate means "a salt found in nature as chalk or calcite or aragonite or limestone".

Is calcium carbonate a common word?

calcium carbonate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.