- Ocean Acidification Makes Coralline Algae Less Robust
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... high- magnesium calcite, the most soluble form of calcium carbonate, and is therefore potentially vulnerable to the change in carbonate chemistry resulting from the absorption of man-made CO2 by the ocean. ...
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- Crystal 'Sunstones' - How The Vikings Discovered America?
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... Norway and Iceland are found crystalline chunks of calcium carbonate known as calcite or Iceland spar. When polarized sunlight enters a ...
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- An Apatite For Progress
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... the lavas that make up the upper oceanic crust forming carbonate minerals. Here we use a new dating approach to show that these ... rudist bivalves decreased in abundance in northern Tethyan carbonate platforms, while rudists with a thickened calcitic outer shell layer ...
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- All Popular Climate Models Misrepresent El Niño
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... Because shells form by crystalizing calcium carbonate taken from the surrounding water, they record information about the ...
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- Deep Core Of African Lake Gives Insight To Ancient Lake Levels, Biodiversity
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... at the lake bottom and leaving behind traces of calcium carbonate. Turning the hundreds of meters of deep core into a timeline ...
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- Subscription Box Chemistry Set
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... Stirrer (from Colorful Chemistry box) Sodium Carbonate (from Colorful Chemistry box) Sodium Chloride (from Colorful ... add Citric acid to second cup, Citric acid and Sodium Carbonate to the third cup, Sodium Chloride to the fourth cup, and Sodium Carbonate to the fifth cup Next add the Thymol Blue to the cups. ...
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- Formation Of Coastal Sea Ice In North Pacific Drives Ocean Circulation And Climate
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... an analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes in the calcium carbonate shells of tiny marine organisms called foraminifera, which are ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2015 - 3:35pm - 0 attachments
- The 150 Year-Old Dinosaur Temperature Debate
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... of eggshells. The researchers measured, in calcium carbonate minerals, the subtle differences in the abundance of chemical bonding ...
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- What May Be Missing From Quantum Computing - A Quantum Middle Man
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... such as ultraviolet and microwaves. Manganese carbonate crystal. Credit: OIST The information transmitted is actually ... the researchers beamed microwaves through a manganese carbonate crystal. The magnetic field of the microwaves interacted with the ...
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- Arctic Ocean Rapidly Becoming More Corrosive To Marine Species
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... waters may no longer be saturated with enough calcium carbonate for a number of animals from tiny sea snails to Alaska King crabs to ... the change over time in the amount of calcium and carbonate ions dissolved in seawater, an important indicator of ocean ... Hole Oceanographic Institution. A form of calcium carbonate in the ocean, called aragonite, is used by animals to construct and ...
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