calcium carbonate

English

Noun

calcium carbonate (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A colourless or white inorganic compound, CaCO₃, occurring as chalk, limestone, marble etc. Reacts with acids to liberate carbon dioxide.
   • 2024 August 6, Ricardo Treviño, “Self-Healing Concrete Help Buildings Seal Themselves”, in TecScience‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 January 2025:

     When calcium oxide is combined with CO2, it naturally forms calcium carbonate over time due to thermodynamic equilibrium, explains the researcher.

Synonyms

• E170 (when used as a food coloring)
• carbonate of lime

Hyponyms

• aragonite
• calcite
• vaterite

Translations

CaCO₃

• Catalan: carbonat de calci m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 碳酸鈣 / 碳酸钙 (taan³ syun¹ koi³)

  Mandarin: 碳酸鈣 / 碳酸钙 (zh) (tànsuāngài)

• Czech: uhličitan vápenatý m
• Dutch: calciumcarbonaat (nl) f
• Finnish: kalsiumkarbonaatti (fi)
• French: carbonate de calcium (fr) m
• Galician: carbonato de calcio (gl) m
• German: Calciumcarbonat (de) n, Kalkstein (de) m, Kalk (de) m
• Hungarian: kalcium-karbonát (hu)
• Indonesian: kalsium karbonat (id)
• Māori: konupūmā pākawa waro
• Polish: węglan wapnia m inan
• Portuguese: carbonato de cálcio m
• Romanian: carbonat de calciu m
• Russian: карбона́т ка́льция (karbonát kálʹcija)
• Slovene: kalcijev karbonat (sl)
• Spanish: carbonato de calcio m
• Thai: แคลเซียมคาร์บอเนต
• Turkish: kalsiyum karbonat (tr)
• Zhuang: dansonhgai