Sentences with phrase «mineral vaterite»
Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery - white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants, which are part of the Garden's national collection of European Saxifraga species.
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They suspect that vaterite may be present on more plant species, but that the unstable mineral is being converted to calcite when exposed to wind and rain.