Noun: calcium
| Singular | calcium |
| Plural | calciums |
Sample Sentences
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Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom. [2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2014:]
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“This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing. [2024 August 6, Ricardo Treviño, “Self-Healing Concrete Help Buildings Seal Themselves”, in TecScience, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2025:]
Nouns inflected like calcium
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin calx
3. Proto-Indo-European *-om
4. Proto-Italic *-om
5. Latin -umder.
6. English -ium
7. English calcium
8. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone. By surface analysis, calc- + -ium. See: Latin Nouns '
calx'.
Verbs referencing "calcium"
Dutch Nouns
calcium, Spanish Nouns
calcio, Finnish Nouns
kalsium, Romanian Nouns
calciu.