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Hydrogen-bonding in Calcium-deficient Hydroxyapatites

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MANY calcium phosphates precipitated from solution give the X-ray diffraction pattern of hydroxyapatite but depart from the ideal stoichiometry, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, of this compound. Pure hydroxyapatite can be prepared only under hydrothermal bomb conditions1,2, whereas the appearance of hydroxyapatites with low Ca/P ratio from aqueous preparations seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

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  1. American Dental Association Research Division, National Bureau of Standards,

    AARON S. POSNER

  2. National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., 25

    JOEL M. STUTMAN

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

    ELLIS R. LIPPINCOTT

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POSNER, A., STUTMAN, J. & LIPPINCOTT, E. Hydrogen-bonding in Calcium-deficient Hydroxyapatites. Nature 188, 486–487 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188486a0

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