Sentences with phrase «called hydroxyapatite»

In fact, the main crystalline structure in bone, called hydroxyapatite, consists of phosphorus, calcium, oxygen, and hydrogen, and calcium and phosphorus are so important in formation of hydroxyapatite that it is often referred to as a «calcium phosphate» molecule.

After all, about fifty percent of bones consist of minerals, with the largest store by far being calcium phosphate, a combination of calcium and phosphorous arranged in a formation called hydroxyapatite.

In ancient bone, DNA is nestled among diverse organic and inorganic molecules, including collagen and a mineral form of calcium called hydroxyapatite, which must be dissolved away to extract sequenceable genetic material.

Enamel — an almost pure layer of a mineral called hydroxyapatite — coats the teeth of almost all tetrapods (four - limbed creatures) and lobe - finned fish such as coelacanths.