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  2. List of mineral symbols - Wikipedia

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    Mineral symbols (text abbreviations) are used to abbreviate mineral groups, subgroups, and species, just as lettered symbols are used for the chemical elements. The first set of commonly used mineral symbols was published in 1983 and covered the common rock-forming minerals using 192 two- or three-lettered symbols. [ 1 ]

  3. Magnesium - Wikipedia

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    Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol ... ions is first treated with lime (calcium oxide) ...

  4. Chemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    The symbols for magnesium and calcium ("lime") were replaced by 1808, and that for gold was simplified. The following symbols were employed by John Dalton in the early 1800s as the periodic table of elements was being formulated.

  5. Lime (material) - Wikipedia

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    Poor lime is also known as lean or meager lime. Poor lime sets and cures very slowly and has weak bonding. Poor lime is grey in color. Magnesium lime contains more than 5% magnesium oxide (BS 6100) or 5-35% magnesium carbonate (ASTM C 59-91). [15] Dolomitic lime has a high magnesium content of 35-46% magnesium carbonate (ASTM C 59-91). [15]

  6. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    It is a tabular arrangement of the elements by their chemical properties that usually uses abbreviated chemical symbols in place of ... Magnesium [w] 2 3 s-block 24. ...

  7. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Although notation was ...

  8. Naming of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    The first letter is always capitalized. While the symbol is often a contraction of the element's name, it may sometimes not match the element's English name; for example, "Pb" for lead (from Latin plumbum) or "W" for tungsten (from German Wolfram). Elements which have only temporary systematic names are given temporary three-letter symbols (e.g ...

  9. Calcium - Wikipedia

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    The first dated lime kiln dates back to 2500 BC and was found in Khafajah, Mesopotamia. [37] [38] About the same time, dehydrated gypsum (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O) was being used in the Great Pyramid of Giza. This material would later be used for the plaster in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The ancient Romans instead used lime mortars made by heating ...