limestone
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“From the moment you arrive, the home’s timeless Texas limestone facade, rich wood beams, and refined architectural detailing create an unmistakable sense of understated luxury,” the description notes.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
"The area we were collecting in is karst, so it's made of sharp, edgy limestone, and it's lost all of its natural soils," Riegler said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
Kone does much of its research underground in Lohja, Finland, in a facility sunk deep into a working limestone mine that lets engineers test travel distances of more than three football fields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Natural gas is used by glass manufacturers to run their furnaces, which melt sand, soda ash, limestone and recycled glass into molten glass blobs which are then shaped into bottles.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
For hundreds of years, much of Paris was built with limestone mined from nearby quarries to the south.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Vocabulary lists containing limestone
Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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Rocks and Minerals - Middle School and High School
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