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What does aragonite mean?

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Noun
  1. (mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3; it is dimorphous with calcite.
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Coral's hard parts are composed of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate.
Microscopic crystals of aragonite located in the inner ears of zebrafish control balance and hearing.
Vein minerals are aragonite, barite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, and whewellite.
Calcium carbonate may crystallize in either of two forms, calcite or aragonite.
The shell consists of carbonate of lime, under one or both of the forms known to mineralogists as calcite and aragonite.
Many limestones are rich in aragonite, but this in course of time tends to recrystallize as calcite.

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