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Limestone is the compressed skeletal remains of minute sea-creatures.

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Why is Calcium Carbonate in limestone important?

It is the primary chemical constituent of limestone. CaCO3, Calcium Carbonate, Calcite, Aragonite. These comprise limestone.


Is Calcite is the main mineral constituent of the sedimentary rock limestone and of the metamorphic rock marble?

Yes, it is.


What happens to limestone when you treat it with dilute hydrochloric acid?

Limestone reacts with dilute hydrochloric acid to produce carbon dioxide gas, water, and calcium chloride salt. This reaction is a chemical reaction that results in the dissolution and breakdown of the limestone into its constituent parts.


What main rock dissolves to form caves?

Limestone and its metamorphic form, marble - calcium carbonate is the rock's principal constituent mineral and it is this that dissolves.


What is the hardness and luster of limestone?

limestone's hardness is 3-4 and it does not have a luster it's main constituent is the mineral calcite, and has a vitreous or glass luster.


Which element is the chief of constituent of bronze?

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive.


What is limestones luster?

Limestone does not have a luster. It's main constituent, the mineral calcite, has a vitreous or glassy luster.


What kind of limestone might be deposited in Mammouth Caves?

Mammoth Cave is typically associated with the Happy Hollow Member of the Girkin Limestone, which is a fossiliferous, marine limestone deposited in a shallow, tropical sea during the Mississippian Period. This limestone contains abundant fossilized shell fragments and marine organisms, reflecting the environment in which it was formed.


Why are cave typically made of limestone?

Limestone is slightly soluble in carbonic acid: rain-water acidified by carbon dioxide dissolved from the atmosphere. As the water seeps down through the joints, faults and bedding-planes within the limestone massif, from catchment area to rising (spring), it dissolves the rock's main constituent, the mineral calcium carbonate.


Is calcite the main mineral comprising limestone and marble?

Yes. Calcite is the main mineral constituent.


What kind of limestone might be deposited in Mammoth caves?

Calcite rather than limestone - the crystalline version of calcium carbonate which is limestone's primary constituent. However it is only being deposited in speleothems (stalactites and stalagmites). . Elsewhere in the cave, limestone is being removed, not deposited, by any stream(s) still flowing in the the system. . The limestone which holds the cave was deposited then uplifted into the highlands whose eroded forms you see now, long before the cave started to develop.