BROMLITE, a member of the aragonite group of minerals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Chemically, calcite has the same composition as the orthorhombic aragonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Spinder soda aragonite karst found in caves at Mammoth Cave National Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mammoth Cave National Park, United States] Reference

Calcium carbonate may crystallize in either of two forms, calcite or aragonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Addition of calcite and aragonite did not affect the pH of the acidified seawater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit] Reference

They should probably be ordered according to hardness: diamond, olivine, aragonite, ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Puzzle No. 3 | Universe Today] Reference

I think aragonite, olivine and ice have hexagonal crystals whereas diamond has octahedral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Puzzle No. 3 | Universe Today] Reference

Therefore, the best order to arrange those four items are: diamond, ice, aragonite, olivine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Puzzle No. 3 | Universe Today] Reference

With an arm he gestured toward a cluster of sparkling aragonite crystals, delicate as flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

Corals are thought to require an aragonite saturation of greater than 3.25 to successfully calcify and grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coral reefs and climate change] Reference

Being isomorphous with aragonite, it crystallizes in the orthorhombic system, but simple crystals are not known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, the dredging of aragonite sands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Simply, the Mg/Ca ratio as measured in biogenic aragonite, for example, is a function of the precipitation temperature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit] Reference

The team showed that corals can switch from using aragonite to another mineral, calcite, in making the calcium carbonate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit] Reference

Both have identical major ion chemistry CaCO3 but different structures: calcite is trigonal whilst aragonite is orthorhombic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit] Reference

Made of aragonite, the huge stone "coins" can be up to 12 feet in diameter and are displayed outside a family's house to indicate status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know...] Reference

In conditions of relatively high Mg/Ca ratios, like those of the present day ocean, many organisms, including coral precipitate aragonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit] Reference

This is actual, observational measurement data that shows a shoaling of the calcite and aragonite saturation horizons in the North Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit] Reference

In the first place, it should be understood that both conchiolin and aragonite are translucent, that is, they pass light to a certain extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Dolomite occurs to a limited extent as such; most of it, being in the form of gurhofite crystals, may be occasionally found with aragonite of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883] Reference

It is probable that if the operation were to take place under the influence of heat, under the conditions above mentioned, aragonite would be formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881] Reference

Thus calcspar is in the 2nd, or hexagonal, whilst aragonite is in the 4th, the rhombic, system, yet both are the same substance, viz.: -- carbonate of lime.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference

Hot or dilute cold solutions deposit minute orthorhombic crystals of aragonite, cold saturated or moderately strong solutions, hexagonal (rhombohedral) crystals of calcite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Oxygen atoms in aragonite are not all exactly alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

This article shares information on the gemstone known as aragonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference

Fascilcular or non trabecular - coral built with no septa made my trabecules, but from aragonite fibres.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Among the locales so represented are the Amazon River (amazonite), Aragon (aragonite), Fort Benton, Montana.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference

The tour begins with a display describing the cavern's aragonite deposits, and then you begin your descent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories] Reference

As corals grow, they deposit a layer of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate, onto the existing coral skeleton.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

In the second division the visitor should notice the small aragonite vases, resembling wine-glasses; in the third case.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to See the British Museum in Four Visits] Reference

Even stabilising CO2 at current levels would still leave some 60\% of coral bathed in seawater with low aragonite levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

This is especially true for aragonite, the mineral used by corals and many other marine organisms to grow their skeletons.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

Anyway, what we came here to see were the Octinska aragonite cave and the Domica cave and they were well worth the effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

The shells are composed of the elements calcium, oxygen and carbon, which are combined to form a mineral known as aragonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Coral reefs grow their structural skeletons by depositing aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate, from calcium ions in sea water.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

(corrosive) with respect to aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Ocean chemistry changing at 'unprecedented rate'] Reference

Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, dredging of aragonite sands (The.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, the dredging of aragonite sands (The.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference