Search results for "Calcium carbonate" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Marble is a metamorphic rock, composed mainly of crystalline calcium carbonate or calcium magnesium carbonate. Used extensively for sculpture ...8 KB (1,153 words) - 03:03, 6 November 2022
- Calcite is a carbonate mineral and is among the most widely distributed minerals on the Earth's surface. Chemically, it is known as calcium ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3). It makes up about ten percent of the total ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 04:10, 29 October 2022
- Dolomite is the name for a mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate (CaMg(CO3)2) and for a sedimentary rock that has this mineral as its ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
- or decarbonizer for various alloys. Calcium carbonate is used in construction ... in the form of various compounds: calcium carbonate in limestone rocks ...18 KB (2,626 words) - 18:21, 25 November 2023
- from sodium-rich albite (NaAlSi3O8) to calcium-rich anorthite (CaAl2Si2O8 ... include calcite and aragonite (both calcium carbonate), dolomite (magnesium/calcium ...16 KB (2,351 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- combines with a calcium ion to form calcium carbonate and a by product of ... in the geosphere. Animal shells of calcium carbonate, in particular, may ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- also called swelling bentonite; and calcium bentonite, also called nonswelling ... pollutants from entering groundwater. Calcium bentonite is sold as an ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 10:17, 28 September 2023
- chemical, and the chloride, sulfate, and carbonate are used in fertilizers ... potash (impure form of potassium carbonate), is mined in California ...18 KB (2,538 words) - 05:52, 30 November 2022
- of strontium are closest to those of calcium, and it can replace calcium ... SrSO4) and strontianite (strontium carbonate, SrCO3). The largest commercially ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 21:04, 26 February 2023
- occurs on rocks that contain calcium carbonate, such as limestone ... :carbonic acid + calcium carbonate --> calcium bicarbonate ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 22:02, 11 June 2020
- , agglutinated, and secreted calcium carbonate (Schweizer 2006). Agglutinated ... approximately 43 million tons of calcium carbonate and thus play an essential ...14 KB (1,865 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- however there have been cases of clastic carbonate rocks. The more appropriate ... carbonate minerals (most often calcium carbonate (CaCO3)) precipitated ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 17:45, 25 January 2023
- cuticle with mineral salts, above all calcium carbonate, which can make up ... Mollusk shells are composite materials of calcium carbonate (found ...22 KB (3,138 words) - 06:10, 13 September 2023
- sulfate, BaSO4) and witherite (barium carbonate, BaCO3). agent in drilling oil wells. Barium carbonate is used in rat poisons ...13 KB (1,855 words) - 08:07, 20 September 2023
- OH groups are absent and containing many carbonate and acid phosphate substitutions—is ... can be replaced by fluoride, chloride or carbonate. As noted above, its formula ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- for acetylene manufacture are calcium carbonate (limestone) and coal ... Calcium carbide (or calcium acetylide) and water are then reacted ...14 KB (2,038 words) - 07:36, 14 June 2023
- to the dissolution and redeposition of calcium carbonate. ... Calcium carbonate dissolved into water may precipitate out where the ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- base, but sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate are also used to raise ... aluminum fluoride), soda ash (sodium carbonate), and soda niter (or Chile ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 21:54, 30 January 2023
- and is formed by a replacement of calcium carbonate with silica. It is ... formations by replacement of calcium carbonate with silica. This is ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
