Calcium carbonate

Calcium carbonate

Calcium carbonate is a common substance found in things like shells, rocks, pearls, and shells. Its most common natural forms are chalk, limestone, and marble, produced by the sedimentation of the shells of small fossilized snails, shellfish, and coral over millions of years. Calcium carbonate is a very versatile and useful material

Source:
"What is calcium carbonate", Industrial Minerals Association - North America, https://www.ima-na.org/page/what_is_calcium_carb, accessed June 2020

General Applications: Building materials, purification of iron, additive to drilling fluid, swimming pool water maintenance, refinement of sugar, agricultural lime, medicine, absorbent material in baby products, filler in polymers, paper, additive in paints, adhesives, abrasive applications.

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Record number: 1172