Mineral: Limestone, Calcium Carbonate

Notes

Also called GCC (Ground Calcium Carbonate), limestone is a very common sedimentary rock. Calcite and Aragonite minerals are the pure crystalline forms of CaCO3 (limestone contains them), but limestone is a much less homogeneous rock (with impurities) that manufacturers blend to produce a consistent product to is close to the ideal CaCO3.

Out Bound Links

• (Minerals - Related) Calcite

  The pure calcium carbonate crystal mineral.

• (Minerals - Related) Aragonite

  A calcium carbonate mineral with a different cryst...

• (URLs) What is GCC at specialtyminerals.com
  http://www.specialtyminerals.com/our-minerals/what...
• (URLs) Limestone at Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone
• (URLs) Mineralogy Data for Calcite
  http://www.handbookofmineralogy.org/pdfs/Calcite.p...

In Bound Links

• (Materials) Camadil 95 Dolomite - Ground Dolomitic Limestone
• (Materials) KARIBIB Dolomite
• (Minerals) Gypsum, Calcium sulphate

  CaSO4 2H2O is the crystalline mineral from which p...

• (Materials - Mineral equivalent) Limestone - CaCO3
• (Materials - Parent mineral) Precipitated Lime - CaCO3 - Synthetic calcium carbonate

  Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, PCC

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Calcium Carbonate - CaCO3

  Carbonate of Lime, Whiting, Aragonite, Calcite, CaCO3

• (Minerals - Related) Talc

  Standard hydrated talc is one of a family of insol...

• (Project) Ceramic Thermal Events

  Many ceramic problems relate to a lack of understa...