bitter spar

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English

Etymology

So called because it contains magnesia, which has bitter soluble salts.

Noun

bitter spar (uncountable)

  1. dolomite

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bitter spar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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