Specific chemical conditions determine whether aragonite or acetate forms
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The available literature provides partial evidence demonstrating that chemical conditions govern mineral polymorph selection and crystallization, but no single source explicitly establishes the specific chemical conditions determining the formation of aragonite versus acetate.
The interaction between multi‐component rare earth element (REE) aqueous solutions and carbonate grains (dolomite, aragonite, and calcite) are studied at hydrothermal conditions (21–210 °C). The effect of ionic radii of five REEs (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Dy) on solid formation are analyzed using two solution types: equal REE concentrations and concentrations normalized to Post Archean Australian Shale Standard (PAAS). The interaction replaces the host Ca–Mg carbonate grains with a series of REE minerals (lanthanite → kozoite → bastnäsite → cerianite). At 165 °C, equal concentration solutions promote kozoite crystallization, maintaining similar REE ratios in solids and solution. PAAS solutions result in zoned REE‐bearing crystals with heterogeneous elemental distributions and discreet REE phases (e.g., cerianite). Chemical signatures indicate metastable REE‐bearing phases transforming into more stable polymorphs, along with symplectite textures formed by adjacent phase reactions. Overall, experiments highlight the dependence of polymorph selection, crystallization pathway, mineral formation kinetics, and chemical texture on REE concentrations, ionic radii, temperature, time, and host grain solubility.
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## Journal of Crystal Growth
Volume 236, Issues 1–3, March 2002, Pages 323-332
# Controlling factors and mechanism of reactive crystallization of calcium carbonate polymorphs from calcium hydroxide suspensions
Mitsutaka Kitamura a, Haruo Konno b, Atsunari Yasui a, Hirokatsu Masuoka a
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## Introduction
Calcium carbonate is used in various industrial fields as additives to medical supply, food, papers, plastics, printing ink, etc. Calcium carbonate has three polymorphs of calcite, aragonite and vaterite, which have the crystal system of rhombohedral, orthorhombic and hexagonal [1], respectively. It is known that at around atmospheric pressure and temperature the thermodynamic stability of the polymorphs is in the order of calcite, aragonite and vaterite [1]. Since the morphology and physicochemical properties such as solubility and d
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