It is an essential component of construction materials such as cement and plaster, but is also a regular annoyance in daily life – when it forms deposits in coffee machines, tea kettles or shower ...

Here, carbon dioxide in the air facilitates the necessary reactions to secondarily deposit calcium carbonate. These calcium carbonate deposits are usually white, but can be colored red ...

Hard water leaves behind calcium carbonate deposits on pipes, tubes, sprayer jets, the heating element and other areas. As a result, the water takes longer to heat, and the water flow and even ...

In the cave, the water evaporates and leaves behind calcium carbonate on the roof of the cavern. Over time, this builds up to create the long, thin deposits that look like icicles hanging from the ...

Researchers have now unraveled the history of the mill complex using calcium carbonate deposits that are now stored in the Archaeological Museum of Arles. These deposits had formed towards the end ...

One of those strategies is to create a concrete that “self-heals,” and in a new study, scientists used synthetic lichen to ...

An interdisciplinary collaboration 10 years in the making used a materials science approach to “fingerprint” the calcium mineral deposits known as microcalcifications ... type and local malignancy; ...