Computer Science
Scientific paper
Oct 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987gecoa..51.2757o&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 51, Issue 10, pp.2757-2767
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Highly supersaturated solutions of Ca 2+ and CO 2- 3 ions rapidly precipitate amorphous calcium carbonate, ACC, the logarithmic thermodynamic solubility product of which is about -6.0 at 25°C. The ACC initially formed is transformed to a mixture of several crystalline calcium carbonate polymorphs within several minutes. The transformed polymorphs are vaterite and calcite at low temperature (14 to 30°C), and aragonite and calcite at high temperature (60 to 80°C). At intermediate temperatures (40 to 50°C) the formation of all three polymorphs was observed. Metastable polymorphs are gradually transformed to the stable form, calcite. It takes about 200 min at 25°C and 370 min at 30°C for the complete transformation of vaterite to calcite, and 1000-1300 min for that of aragonite to calcite at 60-80°C. At 50°C, vaterite is predominantly transformed at first to aragonite within 60 min, and then the aragonite is transformed to calcite in about 900 min. The results of the change in the ion activity product of the solution and the abundances of the polymorphs strongly suggest that the polymorphic transformation of vaterite and aragonite to calcite takes place through dissolution of the metastable phase and growth of the stable phase, calcite. The rate-determining step of the transformation is the growth of calcite. The relative abundance of vaterite becomes higher at 25°C with increasing concentrations of calcium and carbonate ions in the supersaturated solution. When the ion activity product of the initial supersaturated solution is lower than the solubility product of ACC at 25°C, only vaterite directly precipitates after some induction period. The vaterite crystals formed are free of calcite seeds and the vaterite saturated solutions are stable for several days.
Ogino Takeshi
Sawada Kiyoshi
Suzuki Toshio
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