Sentences with phrase «like aragonite»

The well known part tells, how concentrations of dissolved CO2 and the most important ions ions are related, the more difficult part involves non-dissolved carbonates like aragonite, and also other substances that have some influence on the balance.

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But in some cases, droplet - like particles of uncrystallized material known as amorphous calcium carbonate, or ACC, formed first and then transformed into either aragonite or vaterite.

It's made of 95 % chalk — hexagonal plates of calcium carbonate in a crystalline form called aragonite, and they interlock rather like Lego blocks.

While nearly all corals, shells, algae and the like are formed of calcium carbonate CaCo, most are in the form of the mineral aragonite, which is stable in the marine environment.

Others like methane burps and dieoff of the aragonite - shelled plankton are not.