Sentences with phrase «calcite crystals»

Stalactites and Stalagmites hang high overhead as we float past impressive calcite crystals.

Its calcite crystals were originally mistaken for diamonds by British soldiers in the 19th century.

This morning, visit Barton Creek Cave and learn about how the cave served as a gateway to the underworld for the ancient Maya, and paddle a canoe along its aqueous passageways, studded with sparkling calcite crystals.

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Calcite crystals are also formed such that different facets have mirror - image atomic - scale structures.

When the researchers dunked mineral samples in solutions containing both left - and right - handed versions of the amino acid aspartic acid, they discovered that the different versions preferentially stuck to different facets of the calcite crystals.

Williams looked at the radioactive elements uranium and thorium trapped in these calcite crystals, using them as a kind of clock based on the rate at which uranium decays into thorium.

Pure calcite crystals shatter easily, but the oyster shell is organised in thin layers that shift orientation when stressed, confining damage to shallow craters and stopping fractures spreading (Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038 / nmat3920).

This is best shown with the eyes, where even the single calcite crystal lenses survived intact.

Sea urchins have seemingly countless spines each made from a single calcite crystal.

Unlike typical crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite crystal with its own convoluted shape.

Chen's coworker Baile Zhang of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as John Pendry at Imperial College London, and their coworkers have shown that a compromise of partial visible - light cloaking of macroscopic objects can be attained using blocks of transparent materials such as calcite crystal, in which light propagates at different speeds in different directions.

This is a scanning electron microscopy image of a calcite crystal generated in the presence of the sea urchin protein rSpSM50 on a silicon wafer showing organized nanotexturing on exposed surfaces.

Multiple forms often nucleated in a single experiment — at least one calcite crystal formed on top of an aragonite crystal while vaterite crystals grew nearby.

Not exact matches

Several types of minerals — especially ultrapure crystals of calcite, cordierite, and tourmaline — can split a beam of sunlight to form two images, with polarized light taking a slightly different path than the main beam.

In January independent teams at MIT and the University of Birmingham showed how to use calcite (a common crystal) to make paperclip - size objects disappear.

In both cases, the researchers carved out a hiding place in a crystal of the mineral calcite.

So why do these species produce a calcium carbonate crystal crust and why are some crusts calcite and others vaterite?

It gives the crystal calcite its famous ability to produce double images of objects.

Even so, the unusual optical properties of the natural crystal calcite have been used to hide centimetre - size objects under red, green and blue light (Physical Review Letters, vol 106, p 033901).

The newly deposited calcite matches the orientation of the existing crystals, and organic molecules that harden calcite make it even tougher than the original rock, the scientists report in the April issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

They found that the bacterium produces carbonate crystals that form a cement that binds tightly to existing calcite grains, lining the walls of the pores without plugging them.

Without the polymer, they saw crystals of vaterite and a little calcite forming randomly under the microscope.

All of the common crystal forms, including calcite (found in limestone), aragonite (found in mother - of - pearl), and vaterite (found in gallstones), crystallized from solution, often at the same time.

The team observed the acid eating away at the calcite, expanding existing nanometer - sized pits in the material that quickly merged and led to a layer - by - layer removal of calcite along the material's crystal pattern, over a period of several seconds.

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Handcrafted of quartz and calcite, it blooms on a circlet of glittering glass crystal.