Dolomite is an English word with synonyms like rock or stone. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dolomite meaning
An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂; it also exists as the rock dolostone.
Using Dolomite
- The main meaning on this page is: An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂; it also exists as the rock dolostone.
- Useful related words include: rock, stone, bitter spar, mineral.
- In the example corpus, dolomite often appears in combinations such as: or dolomite.
Context around Dolomite
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dolomite
- In this selection, "dolomite" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, magnesium, noonday, powdered, protolith and limestone stand out and add context to how "dolomite" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and magnesium dolomite and is mostly dolomite with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dolomite" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dolomite
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Decorating crack fillers contain similar levels of marble or dolomite. (10 words)
Light gray is mostly dolomite with a little translucent quartz. (10 words)
An algal mat -covered carbonate bank was deposited, forming the Noonday Dolomite. (12 words)
Dyar and Gunter, pp. 644–648 Sulfides main Red cinnabar (HgS), a mercury ore, on dolomite The sulfide minerals are chemical compounds of one or more metals or semimetals with a sulfur; tellurium, arsenic, or selenium can substitute for the sulfur. (41 words)
The glaciers were able to carve away more land on the eastern side of the lowland because the bedrock is made of shale which is softer than the carbonate rocks of dolomite and limestone on the western side. (38 words)
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas's invention consisted of using dolomite or sometimes limestone linings for the Bessemer converter rather than clay, and it became known as the 'basic' Bessemer rather than the 'acid' Bessemer process. (34 words)
Example sentences (10)
Limestone is sedimentary rock composed of calcium carbonate (calcite) and the double carbonate of calcium and magnesium (dolomite).
An algal mat -covered carbonate bank was deposited, forming the Noonday Dolomite.
Calcite immediately effervesces in acid, whereas acid must be applied to powdered dolomite (often to a scratched surface in a rock), for it to effervesce.
Decorating crack fillers contain similar levels of marble or dolomite.
Dyar and Gunter, pp. 644–648 Sulfides main Red cinnabar (HgS), a mercury ore, on dolomite The sulfide minerals are chemical compounds of one or more metals or semimetals with a sulfur; tellurium, arsenic, or selenium can substitute for the sulfur.
Light gray is mostly dolomite with a little translucent quartz.
Pure white marble is the result of metamorphism of a very pure ( silicate -poor) limestone or dolomite protolith.
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas's invention consisted of using dolomite or sometimes limestone linings for the Bessemer converter rather than clay, and it became known as the 'basic' Bessemer rather than the 'acid' Bessemer process.
The coral was raised above sea level about 30 metres, and is now a dolomite limestone outcrop which was eroded in classic karst style into pinnacles up to 20 metres high.
The glaciers were able to carve away more land on the eastern side of the lowland because the bedrock is made of shale which is softer than the carbonate rocks of dolomite and limestone on the western side.
Common combinations with dolomite
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- or dolomite 2×