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Calcium Carbonate Formation in the Presence of Biopolymeric Additives
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Crystal growth of carbonate apatite using a CaCO3 flux
1National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan.
Journal of Materials Science. Materials in Medicine
|September 7, 2004
Abstract:
Single crystals of carbonate apatite were grown using a CaCO3 flux under an Ar gas pressure of 55 MPa. The crystals obtained were observed by scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Electron probe microanalyses and thermal analyses were performed. CO3 ions in planar triangle form replaced both OH sites and PO4 tetrahedral sites in the apatite structure: in particular, the OH sites were perfectly substituted by CO3 ions using this method.

