Limestone has numerous uses: as a building material, an essential component of concrete (Portland cement), as aggregate for the base of roads, as white pigment or filler in products such as toothpaste or paints, as a chemical feedstock for the production of lime, as a soil conditioner, and as a popular decorative …

Bedford, Indiana, has been noted to have the highest quality quarried limestone in the United States. Bedford limestone, like all limestone, is a rock primarily formed of calcium carbonate.

From pyramids to houses, limestone has seen its fair share of construction.

• The Great Sphinx.
• The Parthenon.
• The Lincoln Memorial.
• The Empire State Building.
• The Great Pyramid.
• Washington National Cathedral.
• United States Holocaust Memorial.
• Kingston.

What does limestone taste like? Limestone Does Not Taste Like Limes! Surrounded by wet, mineral-rich soil, limestone was layered on top of each other for decades to form this rock.

What do rocks taste like? They taste like soil. After all that is what soil is made of, the weathering of rocks made up mainly of mineral particles, organic materials, air, water and living organisms.

These are some of the more common minerals that have a significantly distinct taste:

• Borax (sweet alkaline)
• Chalcanthite (sweet metallic & slightly poisonous)
• Epsomite (bitter)
• Glauberite (bitter salty)
• Halite (salty)
• Hanksite (salty)
• Melanterite (sweet, astringent and metallic)
• Sylvite (bitter)

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Chalk, soft, fine-grained, easily pulverized, white-to-grayish variety of limestone. Chalk is composed of the shells of such minute marine organisms as foraminifera, coccoliths, and rhabdoliths. The purest varieties contain up to 99 percent calcium carbonate in the form of the mineral calcite.

Vinegar, an acid, dissolves bits of a material called calcium carbonate in the limestone. Rocks that don’t contain calcium carbonate won’t fizz.

When the acidic lemon juice is added, it reacts with the alkaline of the limestone to produce carbon dioxide, therefore resulting in the appearance of bubbles. Marble is a rock formed from limestone and will react with the acid the same way as the limestone.

Salt water can dissolve more calcium carbonate than fresh water (Smith et al., 1968). Two bodies of water, independently saturated, but with different chemical properties can dissolve additional limestone when combined through the mixing effect (Plummer, 1975).

What happens when you put vinegar on each rock? These mild acids can dissolve rocks that contain calcium carbonate. The lemon juice and vinegar should have bubbled or fizzed on the limestone, calcite, and chalk, which all contain calcium carbonate.

Vinegar was the liquid that caused the chalk to dissolve the fastest.