Sentences with phrase «carbonate skeleton also»
Coral's white calcium carbonate skeleton also gets in on the action.
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The researchers also observed evidence that the unstable precursors eventually crystallized into aragonite, the stable form of calcium carbonate that makes up mature coral skeletons.
Acidification increases the corrosiveness of the water and is also driving a decline in the amount of carbonate ion, needed to make aragonite and calcite, two forms of calcium carbonate that many marine organisms use to build their shells and skeletons.
Other marine organisms that will also be among the first to show signs of corrosion from ocean acidification are those that construct external skeletons out of another variety of calcium carbonate, one that is rich in magnesium.