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Calcium vs Null - What's the difference?

calcium | null |

As nouns the difference between calcium and null

is that calcium is calcium while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

calcium

English

Noun

(wikipedia calcium) (Symbol'': ''Ca )
  • A chemical element, atomic number 20, that is an alkaline earth metal and occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
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  • (countable) An atom of this element.
  • Derived terms

    * bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide * calc-, calci- * calcic * calcio- * * * * * * * * calcium arsenate * calcium carbide * calcium carbonate * calcium chloride * calcium cyanamide * calcium dihydrogen phosphate * calcium fluoride * calcium hydride * calcium hydroxide * calcium light * calcium magnesium carbonate * calcium magnesium silicate * calcium nitrate * calcium oxide * calcium peroxide * calcium phosphate * calcium phosphide * calcium platinate * calcium sulfate, calcium sulphate * calcium sulfide, calcium sulphide * calcium tungstate * dicalcium * monocalcium * oxycalcium * tricalcium

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    See also

    * chalk * lime * limestone ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----