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If you mean artificially, limestone is used as a building stone - both cut for masonry and crushed for hardcore or aggregate- a sculptural material, a raw material of lime and (mixed with clay) cement, as flux in iron-smelting and glass-making, and as source of purified calcium carbonatefor a variety of chemical products and reagents.

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Is Limestone essential for modern day living?

Yes limestone is essential for modern day living it is used in many different things such as toothpaste, concrete, cereals, steel, paper, cosmetics , fizzy drinks and many more things. Without limestone we would not be able to live our normal life and some of the things limestone is in are essential for healthy living such as it is used in water treatment.


What things mined in Missouri?

limestone and coal


How do the coal and limestone specimen differ in appearance?

Coal is easily seen as black. Limestone is usually gray. Coal has no real features to it. Limestone has shells, and other things.


What can you do without limestone?

Well we couldn't really survive without Limestone. Things such as buildings, roads and toothpaste are made from Limestone. Limestone contributes to even the tourist trade. The four main things Limestone contributes to buildings, making glass, improving soil fertility and the tourist trade. I am scared of apples they frighten me. I need help solving this phobia out. Please help. Limestone is Calcium Carbonate. Calcium Carbonate comes in Marble, chalk and Limestone. We could not brush our teeth mainly. This is because we can use other things to make buildings and make roads.


Would high pH water weather limestone?

From what I know, limestone is alkali, and high pH water would not weather alkali things. For the case of limestone, it might even make the limestone bigger (think so).


How is limestone used to neutralise things?

To make babies, poo and urine.


What sedimentary rock is made underwater from the shells of animals?

limestone is made underwater from the shells of animals. We know this because limestone also contains many fossils.


Where do you get limestone?

Limestone can be found in many parts of the world and is usually mined in surface quarries.


What is the source of calcite in organically formed limestone?

The remains of once living things.


What is an example of a sentence using the word limestone?

Indiana has a limestone quarry. The outside of the house is limestone.


Are limestone deposits are often evidence of ancient tropical seas?

Many geologists believe that limestone deposits on land exist where ancient seas used to be. The moisture, over many centuries, created limestone.


What are two important important organic rocks?

Limestone and coal are two important organic rocks.