Miss Armit: Perfect. Calcium carbonate needs to be heated up to eight hundred twenty degrees to start its decomposition. What you think it will break down into, then? Gethin: So many questions.

Calcium carbonate is the active ingredient in many ... many microbial processes that are sensitive to soil pH, such as decomposition, nitrogen mineralization and nitrification, said Feike A.

We show that amorphous calcium carbonate can dehydrate before crystallizing ... TGA of freshly prepared samples showed a weight loss due to lipid decomposition of ~30 wt% between 230 and 530 ...

According to the team, calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) decomposition, which accounts for about 60 percent of total carbon emissions during cement production, has posed a significant challenge ever ...

To make concrete, limestone, or calcium carbonate, is mixed with clay and other materials and then calcined at high temperatures, so CO2 is released via the thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.

A research team has shown that methanogens, micro-organisms ubiquitous in low-oxygen environments like aquifers, soil and even permafrost, can propel their growth by dissolving calcium carbonate ...