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The many lives of calcium carbonate

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Fiona C. Meldrum and Helmut Cölfen chalk up some of the myriad forms and uses of calcium carbonate to burnish a ‘dull’ reputation.

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  1. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Fiona C. Meldrum

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Helmut Cölfen

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Meldrum, F.C., Cölfen, H. The many lives of calcium carbonate. Nat. Chem. 15, 1196 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01284-0

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