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calcimine

Architecture; General architecture

A low-cost wash coating consisting of glue and whiting (usually powdered calcium carbonate) mixed with water,sometimes tinted; used on plaster or masonrytype surfaces.

calcine

Architecture; General architecture

To heat a substance below the temperature of fusion to drive off chemically combined water or to alter its chemical and physical characteristics.

calcined gypsum

Architecture; General architecture

A gypsum that has beenpartially dehydrated by heating.

calcite

Architecture; General architecture

A mineral form of calcium carbonate;the principal constituent of limestone, chalk,and marble; usually a major raw material used in portland cement manufacture.

calcite streak

Architecture; General architecture

A former fracture or parting(in limestone) that has been recemented and annealed by deposition of calcite.

calfiz

Architecture; General architecture

In Hispanic architecture, a rectangular ornamental frame around a door.

caliber

Architecture; General architecture

The nominal internal diameter of a pipe. In contrast, the outside diameter is specified for brass and copper tubing and for brass and copper pipe of other than iron-pipe sizes.