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Well-defined star-shaped calcite crystals formed in agarose gels
Dong Yang1, Limin Qi, Jiming Ma
1State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Stable and Unstable Species, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 5, 2003
Abstract:
Single crystals of calcite exhibiting a morphology of well-defined 8-armed stars, which evolved from original rhombohedral calcite crystals with their 8 points extending radially into eight arms, were produced by crystallization of CaCO3 in agarose gels.