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The correct spelling is coccolith.
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noun
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The correct spelling is coccolith. A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
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noun
- 1.A microscopic skeletal plate of calcite on the surface of certain marine phytoplankton; it forms chalk and limestone when fossilized
- 2.The mineral diopside.
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