calcium

English

Chemical element
Ca	Previous: potassium (K)
	Next: scandium (Sc)

Etymology

A New Latin word derived by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx ("lime", "limestone") because it occurs in limestone.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Wikipedia calcium (countable and uncountable; plural calciums) (Symbol: Ca)

1. A chemical element, atomic number 20, that is an alkaline earth metal and occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
2. (countable) An atom of this element.

Derived terms

Derived terms

bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide calc-, calci- calcic calcio- calcium-40 calcium-42 calcium-43 calcium-44 calcium-45 calcium-46 calcium-48 calcium arsenate calcium carbide calcium carbonate calcium chloride calcium cyanamide calcium dihydrogen phosphate calcium fluoride

calcium hydride calcium hydroxide calcium light calcium magnesium carbonate calcium magnesium silicate calcium nitrate calcium oxide calcium peroxide calcium phosphate calcium phosphide calcium platinate calcium sulfate, calcium sulphate calcium sulfide, calcium sulphide calcium tungstate dicalcium monocalcium oxycalcium tricalcium

Related terms

Related terms

BSCCO Ca²⁺ calcia

calcite calx calculus

Translations

chemical element of atomic number 20

• Afrikaans: kalsium (af)
• Albanian: kalcium (sq)
• Arabic: كلسيوم (ar) (kálsiyum) m
• Armenian: կալցիում (hy) (kalcʿium)
• Basque: kaltzio (eu)
• Belarusian: кальцый (be) (kál'tsyj) m
• Breton: kalsiom (br), kalkiom (br) m
• Bulgarian: калций (bg) (káltsij) m
• Catalan: calci (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈣 (cmn), 钙 (cmn) (gài)

  Cantonese: 鈣 (yue) (koi3)

• Cornish: calcyum (kw)
• Czech: vápník (cs)
• Danish: kalcium (da)
• Dutch: calcium (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalcio (eo)
• Estonian: kaltsium (et)
• Faroese: kalsium (fo)
• Finnish: kalsium (fi)
• French: calcium (fr) m
• Friulian: calci (fur)
• Galician: calcio (gl)
• Georgian: კალციუმი (ka) (kalts'iumi)
• German: Kalzium (de) n, Calcium (de) n
• Greek: ασβέστιο (el) (asvéstio) n
• Hebrew: סידן (he) (sidán), קלציום (he) (qáltzium)
• Hindi: चूर्णातु (hi) (choornaatu)
• Hungarian: kalcium (hu)
• Icelandic: kalsín (is)
• Interlingua: calcium (ia)
• Irish: cailciam (ga)
• Italian: calcio (it) m
• Japanese: カルシウム (ja) (karushiumu)
• Kashubian: kalcéń (csb)
• Kazakh: кальций (kk) (kal'tsij)
• Korean: 칼슘 (ko) (kalsyum)

• Latin: calcium (la) n
• Latvian: kalcijs (lv)
• Lithuanian: kalcis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Kalzium (lb)
• Macedonian: калциум (mk) (káltsium) m
• Malay: kalsium (ms), zat kapur (ms)
• Maltese: kalċju (mt)
• Manx: kelkium (gv)
• Mongolian: кальци (mn) (kal'tsi)
• Navajo: káálsiiyin
• Norwegian: kalsium (no)
• Persian: کلسیم (fa) (kalsiom)
• Polish: wapń (pl) m
• Portuguese: cálcio (pt) m
• Romanian: calciu (ro) n
• Russian: кальций (ru) (kál’cij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: cailceam (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калциjум (sh) m, калциj (sh) m

  Roman: kalcijum (sh), kalcij (sh)

• Slovak: vápník (sk), vápnik (sk)
• Slovene: kalcij (sl)
• Spanish: calcio (es) m
• Swedish: kalcium (sv) n
• Tajik: калсий (tg) (kalci')
• Tamil: சுண்ணியம் (ta) (chuNNiyam)
• Telugu: సున్నము (te) (sunnamu)
• Thai: แคลเซียม (th) (khælsiam)
• Turkish: kalsiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: кальцiй (uk) (kál'tsij) m
• Uzbek: (kal'tsiy) кальций (uz)
• Vietnamese: canxi (vi)
• Volapük: kalsin (vo)
• Welsh: calsiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: kalsium (fy)

See also

• chalk
• lime
• limestone

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
Ca	Previous: kalium (K)
	Next: scandium (Sc)

Pronunciation

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Noun

calcium n (uncountable)

1. calcium

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kal.sjɔm/

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Noun

calcium m (usually uncountable)

1. calcium

Related terms

• calcaire
• calcifier
• calcique

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

calcium (genitive calciī); n, second declension

1. calcium
2. genitive plural of calx

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	calcium	calcia
genitive	calciī	calciōrum
dative	calciō	calciīs
accusative	calcium	calcia
ablative	calciō	calciīs
vocative	calcium	calcia