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Preferred term

calcium

Definition

  • [GEMET] A malleable silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline hearth group; the fifth most abundant element in the earth crust, occurring especially as forms of calcium carbonate. It is an essential constituent of bones and teeth and is used as a deoxidizer in steel.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Ca

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

In other languages

Arabic

  • الكالسيوم

Bulgarian

  • Калций

Croatian

  • kalcij

Czech

  • vápník

Danish

  • calcium

Dutch

  • calcium

Estonian

  • kaltsium

Finnish

  • kalsium

French

  • calcium

German

  • Calcium

Greek

  • ασβέστιο

Hungarian

  • kalcium

Italian

  • calcio

Latvian

  • kalcijs

Lithuanian

  • kalcis

Norwegian

  • kalsium

Polish

  • wapń

Portuguese

  • cálcio

Romanian

  • calciu

Slovak

  • vápnik

Slovenian

  • kalcij

Spanish

  • calcio

Swedish

  • kalcium

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20804

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