Calcium carbonate phosphate

The bones and teeth of humans and other vertebrate animals, for example, consist mainly of a composite material made up of an organic substance, collagen, and a biomineral, calcium carbonate phosphate (see Textboxes 32 and 61). The latter, which makes up about two-thirds of the total dry weight of bone, is composed of calcium phosphate containing between 4-6% calcite (composed of calcium carbonate) as well as small amounts of sodium, magnesium, fluorine, and other trace elements. The formula Ca HPChXPChMCChXOH) approximately represents its composition its crystal structure is akin to that... 

Anticaking agents commonly used include calcium carbonate, phosphate, silicate, and stearate cellulose (microcrystalline) kaolin magnesium carbonate, hydroxide, oxide, silicate, and stearate myristates palmitates phosphates silica (silicon dioxide) sodium ferrocyanide sodium silicoa-lummale and starches. 

Bachra, B. N., Trautz, O., and Simon, S. L. Precipitation of calcium carbonates and phosphates. II. A precipitation diagram for the system calcium-carbonate-phosphate and the heterogeneous nucleation of solids in the metastability region. Adv. Arch. Fluorine Res. Dental Caries Prev. 3,101-118 (1965). 

Differences in river basin morphology, soil characteristics, rainfall, and land use in a watershed Influence phosphorus transport in a fluvial system. However, the dominance of iron oxides as an inorganic phosphate sink and the discharge dependent behavior of calcium carbonate-phosphate minerals found in this study would be expected to exist in other calcareous agricultural regions of New York State as well. Mountainous terrain and areas of sand and muck soil would probably not exhibit the same behavior. It would seem that the results of this study could also apply to other agricultural watersheds adjacent to the North American Great Lakes. 

Avnimelech, Y. 1980. Calcium-carbonate-phosphate surface complex in calcareous systems. Nature 266 255-257. 

The pathogenesis of gallstones can essentially be reduced to a matter of solubility of the various solutes that constitute the stone—cholesterol in cholesterol stones and cholesterol, calcium carbonate, phosphate, or bilirubinate in mixed stones. 

Additionally, the calcium carbonate phosphate mineral dahUite (Caio(P04)6(C03).H20) has been identified in ivory (LeGeros et al., 1960 McDoimell, 1965). Several of the phosphates are also known to occur in urinary calculi and may therefore be present in gallstones. A fuller discussion of calciinn phosphates and alhed compounds as found in bone, ivory and gallstones can be found in the relevant entries. 

Qualitative examples abound. Perfect crystals of sodium carbonate, sulfate, or phosphate may be kept for years without efflorescing, although if scratched, they begin to do so immediately. Too strongly heated or burned lime or plaster of Paris takes up the first traces of water only with difficulty. Reactions of this type tend to be autocat-alytic. The initial rate is slow, due to the absence of the necessary linear interface, but the rate accelerates as more and more product is formed. See Refs. 147-153 for other examples. Ruckenstein [154] has discussed a kinetic model based on nucleation theory. There is certainly evidence that patches of product may be present, as in the oxidation of Mo(lOO) surfaces [155], and that surface defects are important [156]. There may be catalysis thus reaction VII-27 is catalyzed by water vapor [157]. A topotactic reaction is one where the product or products retain the external crystalline shape of the reactant crystal [158]. More often, however, there is a complicated morphology with pitting, cracking, and pore formation, as with calcium carbonate [159]. 

Calcium. Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the earth s cmst. There is no foreseeable lack of this resource as it is virtually unlimited. Primary sources of calcium are lime materials and gypsum, generally classified as soil amendments (see Calcium compounds). Among the more important calcium amendments are blast furnace slag, calcitic limestone, gypsum, hydrated lime, and precipitated lime. Fertilizers that carry calcium are calcium cyanamide, calcium nitrate, phosphate rock, and superphosphates. In addition, there are several organic carriers of calcium. Calcium is widely distributed in nature as calcium carbonate, chalk, marble, gypsum, fluorspar, phosphate rock, and other rocks and minerals. 

The abihty of algiaates to form edible gels by reaction with calcium salts is an important property. Calcium sources are usually calcium carbonate, sulfate, chloride, phosphate, or tartrate (20). The rate of gel formation as well as the quaUty and texture of the resultant gel can be controlled by the solubihty and availabiUty of the calcium source. 

Calcium carbonate (calcite) scale formation in hard water can be prevented by the addition of a small amount of soluble polyphosphate in a process known as threshold treatment. The polyphosphate sorbs to the face of the calcite nuclei and further growth is blocked. Polyphosphates can also inhibit the corrosion of metals by the sorption of the phosphate onto a thin calcite film that deposits onto the metal surface. When the polyphosphate is present, a protective anodic polarization results. 

Many plants outside of North America pfill or granulate a mixture of ammonium nitrate and calcium carbonate. Production of this mixture, often called calcium ammonium nitrate, essentially removes any explosion hazard. In many cases calcium nitrate recovered from acidulation of phosphate rock (see Phosphoric acid and the phosphates) is reacted with ammonia and carbon dioxide to give a calcium carbonate—ammonium nitrate mixture containing 21 to 26% nitrogen (23). 

Bone, or osseous tissue, is composed of osteocytes and osteoclasts embedded in a calcified matrix. Hard tissue consists of about 50% water and 50% solids. The solids are composed of cartilaginous material hardened with inorganic salts, such as calcium carbonate and phosphate of lime. 

Hydroxyapatite (HA) coating on the surface of the hip stem and the acetabular cup is the most recent advancement in artificial hip joint implant technology. This substance is a form of calcium phosphate, which is sprayed onto the hip implant. It is a material found in combination with calcium carbonate in bone tissue, and bones can easily adapt to it. When bone tissue does grow into HA, the tissue then fixes the hip joint implant permanently in position. These HA coatings are only used in press-fit, noncemented implants. 

In addition to the requirement to conform to steam purity needs, there are concerns that the boiler water not corrode the boiler tubes nor produce deposits, known as scale, on these tubes. Three important components of boiler tube scale are iron oxides, copper oxides, and calcium salts, particularly calcium carbonate [471-34-1]. Calcium carbonate in the feedwater tends to produce a hard, tenacious deposit. Sodium phosphate is often added to the water of recirculating boilers to change the precipitate from calcium carbonate to calcium phosphate (see also Water, industrial water treatment). 

Filtration. Any type of clarification is foUowed by filtration through leaf-type vertical or horizontal pressure filters. Carbonatated Hquors, containing calcium carbonate, may require addition of diatomaceous earth as a filter precoat. Phosphatated Hquors are generally filtered with the addition of diatomaceous earth as precoat and body feed. 

Phospha.te Treatment. Calcium phosphate is virtually insoluble in boiler water. Even small levels of phosphate can be maintained to ensure the precipitation of calcium phosphate in the bulk boiler water, away from heating surfaces. Therefore, the introduction of phosphate treatment eliminates the formation of calcium carbonate scale on tube surfaces. When calcium phosphate is formed in boiler water of sufficient alkalinity, a particle with a relatively nonadherent surface charge is produced. This does not prevent the development of deposit accumulations over time, but the deposits can be controlled reasonably well by blowdown. 

Precipita.tingInhibitors. As discussed earlier, the localized pH at the cathode of the corrosion cell is elevated due to the generation of hydroxide ions. Precipitating inhibitors form complexes that are insoluble at this high pH (1—2 pH units above bulk water), but whose deposition can be controlled at the bulk water pH (typically 7—9 pH). A good example is zinc, which can precipitate as hydroxide, carbonate, or phosphate. Calcium carbonate and calcium orthophosphate are also precipitating inhibitors. Orthophosphate thus exhibits a dual mechanism, acting as both an anodic passivator and a cathodic precipitator. 

Although they may be completely soluble in the lower temperature bulk water, these compounds (eg, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and magnesium siUcate) supersaturate in the higher temperature water adjacent to the heat-transfer surface and precipitate on the surface. 

The ash content is 0.2—0.5% by weight for temperate woods and 0.5—2.0% by weight for tropical woods. The principal elemental components of wood ash are calcium and potassium with lesser amounts of magnesium, sodium, manganese, and iron. Carbonate, phosphate, sUicate, oxalate, and sulfate are likely anions. Some woods, especiaUy from the tropics, contain significant amounts of sUica. 

When it is desirable to use a weak black, bone black may be substituted for carbon. It is manufactured by calcining animal bones and contains approximately 85% calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate. Black iron oxide (Fe O is stable up to 150°C. Copper chromite black (Cu(Cr02)2) is iuert to all but mbberlike compositions and has been calcined to 600°C. 

The polysulfide base material contains 50—80% of the polyfunctional mercaptan, which is a clear, amber, sympy Hquid polymer with a viscosity at 25°C of 35, 000 Pa-s(= cP), an average mol wt of 4000, a pH range of 6—8, and a ntild, characteristic mercaptan odor. Fillers are added to extend, reinforce, harden, and color the base. They may iaclude siUca, calcium sulfate, ziac oxide, ziac sulfide [1314-98-3] alumina, titanium dioxide [13463-67-7] and calcium carbonate. The high shear strength of the Hquid polymer makes the compositions difficult to mix. The addition of limited amounts of diluents improves the mix without reduciag the set-mbber characteristics unduly, eg, dibutyl phthalate [84-74-2], tricresyl phosphate [1330-78-5], and tributyl citrate [77-94-1]. 

An abrasive is usually chemically inert, neither interacting with other dentifrice ingredients nor dissolving in the paste or the mouth. Substances used as dentifrice abrasives include amorphous hydrated silica, dicalcium phosphate dihydrate [7789-77-7] anhydrous dicalcium phosphate [7757-93-9] insoluble sodium metaphosphate [10361-03-2], calcium pyrophosphate [35405-51-7], a-alumina trihydrate, and calcium carbonate [471-34-1]. These materials are usually synthesized to specifications for purity, particle size, and other characteristics naturally occurring minerals are used infrequently. Sodium bicarbonate [144-55-8] and sodium chloride [7647-14-5] have also been employed as dentifrice abrasives. 

The efforts of the detergent industry toward solution of its part of the eutrophication problem are, at this point, less complete than its response to the biodegradabihty problem. Soda ash, Na2C02, sodium siUcate, and, to a lesser extent, sodium citrate formed the basis of the early formulations marketed in the areas where phosphates were harmed. Technically, these substances are considerably less effective than sodium tripolyphosphate. As a precipitant builder, soda ash can lead to undesirable deposits of calcium carbonate on textiles and on washing machines. 

The egg shell is 94% calcium carbonate [471-34-17, CaCO, 1% calcium phosphate [7758-23-8] and a small amount of magnesium carbonate [546-93-0]. A water-insoluble keratin-type protein is found within the shell and in the outer cuticle coating. The pores of the shell allow carbon dioxide and water to escape during storage. The shell is separated from the egg contents by two protein membranes. The air cell formed by separation of these membranes increases in size because of water loss. The air cell originally forms because of the contraction of the Hquid within the egg shell when the temperature changes from the body temperature of the hen at 41.6°C to a storage temperature of the egg at 7.2°C. 

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