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BITTER SPAR

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bitter spar mean?

• BITTER SPAR (noun)
The noun BITTER SPAR has 1 sense:

1. a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer

Familiarity information: BITTER SPAR used as a noun is very rare.

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• BITTER SPAR (noun)

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Meaning:

A light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

bitter spar; dolomite

Hypernyms ("bitter spar" is a kind of...):

mineral (solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition)

Meronyms (substance of "bitter spar"):

atomic number 12; magnesium; Mg (a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine))

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