Forty-seven patients with mild hypertension and 48 normotensive patients entered a blinded, parallel study in which they received a placebo, 10 mmol/day calcium carbonate (CaCO3), or 20 mmol/day CaCO3. There were no significant differences in blood pressure changes among the groups. In the hypertensive group and in patients with the highest blood pressure there were individual falls in systolic...

This paper reports a new route to synthesize calcium carbonate (CaCO3)-based nanoscale ionic materials (NIMs) via an in situ formation method to form the CaCO3 nanoparticles with a polysiloxane quaternary ammonium salt (PQAC) corona (PQAC-CaCO3 nanoparticles), followed by an ionic exchange reaction to fabricate a poly(ethylene glycol)-tailed sulfonate anion (NPEP) canopy. The chemical compositi...

The production of elemental sulphur and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from gypsum waste can be achieved by thermally reducing the waste into calcium sulphide (CaS), which is then subjected to a direct aqueous carbonation step for the generation of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) and CaCO3. H2S can subsequently be converted to elemental sulphur via the commercially available chemical catalytic Claus process...

Recent ex situ observations of crystallization in both natural and synthetic systems indicate that the classical models of nucleation and growth are inaccurate. However, in situ observations that can provide direct evidence for alternative models have been lacking due to the limited temporal and spatial resolution of experimental techniques that can observe dynamic processes in a bulk solution....

Forty-seven patients with mild hypertension and 48 normotensive patients entered a blinded, parallel study in which they received a placebo, 10 mmol/day calcium carbonate (CaCO3), or 20 mmol/day CaCO3. There were no significant differences in blood pressure changes among the groups. In the hypertensive group and in patients with the highest blood pressure there were individual falls in systolic...

In this study, calcium carbonate (CaCO3) nanoparticles with spherical structure were regulated by arginine and successfully synthesized via a facile co-precipitation method. The average particle size of as-prepared CaCO3 was about 900 nm. The properties of nanostructured CaCO3 particles were characterized by scanning electron microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffractio...

This model study addresses the change in pelagic calcium carbonate production (CaCO3, as calcite in the model) and dissolution in response to rising atmospheric CO2. The parameterization of CaCO3 production includes a dependency on the saturation state of seawater with respect to calcite. It was derived from laboratory and mesocosm studies on particulate organic and inorganic carbon production ...

The growth rate of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) crystals in the endolymphatic sac was modulated, and morphological changes in this organ were observed by light and electron microscopy. When calcium chloride (CaCl2) was given to the three frog for a short period (3 days to 2 weeks), CaCO3 crystal production was accelerated. Epithelial cells enlarged, their rough endoplasmic reticulum (rER) and Golg...