Sentences with phrase «into magnesium carbonate»

There are entire mountain ranges made of magnesium silicates that over millions of years would naturally turn into magnesium carbonate.

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With the potential sale of magnesium carbonate, the cost could flip into a net financial gain, said Mercier.

Normally, the reaction happens too slowly to be useful, but injecting carbon dioxide into the rock at high pressure would speed things up considerably; the formation of magnesium carbonate could cause the rock to expand and crack, with the increased surface area spurring the reaction to continue.

Weightlifting chalk is made from magnesium carbonate that has been pounded into a fine powder.

The sands of the island, the beaches, material on the sea floor between the island and the reef, the makeup of the reef itself and the material shed from the reef into the deeper ocean offshore are composed dominantly of calcium carbonate with some magnesium carbonate.