It may have taken away a few days of realizing my food and dinner plans with a friend, but it didnât get my spirit. With a little advice from the parents and a bowl of not-so-chicken chicken soup, I am back to 100%, body, soul and taste buds alike. White Bean and Sourdough Bread Soup.
Honeycomb calcite is a most unusual and impressive form of calcite that has been found exclusively in one locale in the world: Utah in the U.S. Even though honeycomb calcite is a fairly new discovery, the stone is actually quite oldâ¦ 150 â 200 million years old.
Calcite is the primary mineral in metamorphic marble. It also occurs as a vein mineral in deposits from hot springs, and it occurs in caverns as stalactites and stalagmites. Lublinite is a fibrous, efflorescent form of calcite. transparent variety called Iceland spar is used for optical purposes. Acute scalenohedral crystals are sometimes referred to as dogtooth spar while the rhombohedral form is sometimes referred to as nailhead spar. Single calcite crystals display an optical property called birefringence (double refraction).