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Carbonate in sentence

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When you evaporate seawater, the first thing to crystallize out is calcium carbonate.
This abalone shell is a biocomposite material that's 98 percent by mass calcium carbonate and two percent by mass protein.
They can pull calcium out of the environment, and put down a layer of calcium and then carbonate, calcium and carbonate.
And they said, calcium carbonate.
And I said, that's what this is; this is calcium carbonate.
Because what seems a simple stalactite here is not made by calcium carbonate, but is made by opal, and one of those stalactites can require tens of millions of years to be formed.
There are corals made of different forms of calcium carbonate growing off the basalt of this massive undersea mountain, and the dark sort of stuff, those are fossilized corals, and we're going to talk a little more about those as we travel back in time.
It's made of calcium carbonate, so you can see its tentacles there, moving in the ocean currents.
The resulting calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the air, starting a process called autogenous healing, where microscopic calcium carbonate crystals form and gradually fill the gap.
Scientists have discovered that some bacteria and fungi can produce minerals, including the calcium carbonate found in autogenous healing.
When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
Here, we've got a protocell to extract carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into carbonate.
It's not different, it's the same stuff: calcium carbonate, calcium carbonate.
Oh, by the way, just in case you weren't already guessing, it's calcium carbonate.
Because the lowly abalone is able to lay down the calcium carbonate crystals in layers, making this beautiful, iridescent mother of pearl.
We can analyze the carbonate that makes up the coral, and there's a whole bunch of things we can do.
The main framework material of coral reefs is calcium carbonate.
But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected.
In 1,000 grams one finds 96.5% water and about 2.66% sodium chloride; then small quantities of magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium bromide, sulfate of magnesia, calcium sulfate, and calcium carbonate.
"All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman H. C. Sirr!"Ned and Conseil took seats on a couch, and right off the Canadian said to me:"Sir, just what is a pearl exactly?""My gallant Ned," I replied, "for poets a pearl is a tear from the sea; for Orientals it's a drop of solidified dew; for the ladies it's a jewel they can wear on their fingers, necks, and ears that's oblong in shape, glassy in luster, and formed from mother-of-pearl; for chemists it's a mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate with a little gelatin protein; and finally, for naturalists it's a simple festering secretion from the organ that produces mother-of-pearl in certain bivalves."
It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool, and during this time Neb and Pencroft, guided by Cyrus Harding, brought, on a hurdle made of interlaced branches, loads of carbonate of lime and common stones, which were very abundant, to the north of the lake.
Cyrus Harding could have manufactured this substance by treating the carbonate of potash, which would be easily extracted from the cinders of the vegetables, by azotic acid.
As to the substances used in the composition of glass, they are simply sand, chalk, and soda, either carbonate or sulphate.
The soda, which it was easy to change into carbonate of soda, and the chlorine, of which he made chloride of lime, were employed for various domestic purposes, and especially in bleaching linen.