Os polimorfos de carbonato de cálcio: uma síntese fácil de aragonita The polymorphs of calcium carbonate: an easy synthesis of aragonite

<abstract language="eng">Aragonite is a metastable polymorph of calcium carbonate. The calcareous exoskeletons of some organisms like corals or molluscs consist essentially of aragonite. The questions of how, and why these organisms prefer the thermodynamically unstable aragonite for...

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Main Authors: Karl E. Bessler, Laécio C. Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2008-01-01
Series:Química Nova
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-40422008000100032