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calciferous

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cal·cif·er·ous  (kl-sfr-s)
adj.
Of, forming, or containing calcium or calcium carbonate.
calciferous [kælˈsɪfərəs]
adj
(Chemistry) forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
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Adj.1.calciferous - bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite
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If your body is eliminating waste products as urine and you are not drinking sufficient fluids, the waste products in your urine could crystallize in your bladder or kidneys and grow into kidney stones - and, my brother assures me that getting rid of calciferous stones from those areas is a very painful business.
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And in Springs and Rocks, 1995, twelve jagged, calciferous stones quarried from the hole-riddled bedrock upon which much of Paris sits (in places unstably) were each bolted to a spring cable so that they dangled nearly to the floor like antitrophies (a negation of the apostles, the months in the calendar, the notes in an octave, the sign of the zodiac, and so on), as if playing an underworld role opposite Solarium's materialization of warmth.
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My brother and I used to collect these calciferous remnants of sea creatures long, long past in sandwich bags and try to sell them to the next-door neighbours for two pence a throw.
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