calcium
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone.[1]
calcium (countable and uncountable, plural calciums)
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