How to make 'stable' ACC: Protocol and preliminary structural characterization

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 283-286

  Rodriguez Blanco, J D ^a   Shaw, S ^a   Benning, L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; SPHERES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMORPHOUS CALCIUM CARBONATES; CONCOMITANT FORMATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INDUCED CRYSTALLIZATIONS; NANOSCALE; ORDERED DOMAINS; RAMAN PATTERNS; SIMPLE PROTOCOLS; SPHERICAL PARTICLES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS;

AMORPHOUS MEDIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CRYSTALLIZATION; MINERAL SYNTHESIS; PARTICLE SIZE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 57249108605     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2008.072.1.283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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