3 March 2015
For almost a century, scientists have been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth’s oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of calcite, and at other times form a chemically identical form of the mineral, called aragonite, that is more soluble — and therefore more vulnerable to ocean acidification?
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/4lXVMwGGQJA/150303105751.htm
