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... pH (making it more acidic), and that process also removes carbonate, an essential ingredient needed by corals and other organisms to ... of corals, more algae growth, lower rates of calcium carbonate production (growth), and juvenile corals that have difficulty ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2015 - 9:29pm - 0 attachments

... dioxide, a pollutant in the air, can react with calcium carbonate in limestone, forming gypsum. Seawater spray can also weather ...

Article - Joel Shurkin - May 25 2015 - 11:07am - 0 attachments

... temperatures decrease, corals and mollusks produce calcium carbonate -- the raw material of ocean reefs and clam shells -- that contains ... As a result, scientists have used isotopic ratios from carbonate fossils to estimate global temperatures in the distant past. In ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2015 - 8:48am - 0 attachments

... is 95% water so it may be terrific, just add water, carbonate and grab your guitar. The concentrates are the way to go, they can ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:29pm - 0 attachments

... of lead red. Key was identification of the very rare lead carbonate mineral plumbonacrite in a painting by Van Gogh. Red lead (minium, ... due to the conversion of red lead to lead sulfate or lead carbonate. A team headed by Koen Janssens at the University of Antwerp has ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2015 - 2:19pm - 0 attachments

... to much of the life in Earth's oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form ... that the team chose to explore metastability using calcium carbonate because many decades of good experimental data are available, making ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2015 - 9:30am - 0 attachments

... an abundant and environmentally benign sorbent: sodium carbonate, a.k.a. kitchen-grade baking soda. The microencapsulated carbon ... device in which the flow rates of three fluids--a carbonate solution combined with a catalyst for enhanced CO2 absorption, a ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2015 - 8:19pm - 0 attachments

... Shells are made from crystalline compounds of calcium carbonate interleaved with an organic matrix of proteins and sugars proteins ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2015 - 11:45am - 0 attachments

... we suggest that this mode of sand apron development and carbonate production is applicable to most reef systems. Citation: Late Holocene sea-level fall and turn-off of reef flat carbonate production: Rethinking bucket fill and coral reef growth models ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 11:30pm - 0 attachments

... region filled with brine, or salty water. As each carbonate species reacts differently when diffusing or flowing through water, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2015 - 11:07pm - 0 attachments