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  • n  a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals

  • Acid, for instance, dissolves limestone, but it also destroys many types of fossils.
  • Then he picked up the bullhorn again and approached another crowd of extras covered like ghosts in thick white limestone powder.
  • Bar-Matthews and Ayalon discounted these results, saying the results had been corrupted either from the limestone of the box or from a nearby crack that had been recently .
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  • Zahi Hawass in BBC News
    Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, said: "It doesn't look great because it was built from mud brick and not built of limestone, but I really believe that this tomb is very important."
  • Chris Martin in FanBolt.Com
    I know you all have heard that the president had this beautiful limestone cross built on this peninsula in our lake, and that's where they got married, in front of this limestone cross that is the same limestone that our house is built from. So... President Bush http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFh0u2JMmcpgHHAEOKNoPb27FyIcg FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355182,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGk479U51EJc3K_3e9CTglZm4aQ3g May 12, 2008 58381 77715 limestone We're not, of course, the heaviest of rock banks, as you may have noticed," frontman Chris Martin said in thanking the crowd for their Rock Album honor. "We're more a little limestone kind of rock-a little something, but just as charming."

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