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Magnesium carbonate, Mg CO 3 (archaic name magnesia alba), is an inorganic salt that is a colourless or white solid. Several hydrated and basic forms of magnesium carbonate also exist as minerals .
It represents the pentahydrate of magnesium carbonate, and has the total formula MgCO 3 ·5H 2 O . [2] Landsfordite was discovered in 1888 in a coal mine in Lansford, Pennsylvania. It crystallizes in the monoclinic system (space group P2 1 /c [3]) and typically occurs as colorless to white prismatic crystals and stalactitic masses. [4]
Artinite is a hydrated basic magnesium carbonate mineral with formula: Mg 2 (CO 3)(OH) 2 ·3H 2 O. It forms white silky monoclinic prismatic crystals that are often in radial arrays or encrustations. It has a Mohs hardness of 2.5 and a specific gravity of 2.
The fundamental difficulty to nucleate anhydrous magnesium carbonate remains when using this non-aqueous solution. Not cation dehydration, but rather the spatial configuration of carbonate anions creates the barrier in the low-temperature nucleation of magnesite. [8] Magnesite has been found in modern sediments, caves and soils.
It is the most common cave carbonate after calcite and aragonite. [2] The mineral thermally decomposes, [5] [6] over a temperature range of approximately 220 °C to 550 °C, releasing water and carbon dioxide leaving a magnesium oxide residue. Hydromagnesite was first described in 1836 for an occurrence in Hoboken, New Jersey. [3]
The carbonates bind to plumbing surfaces providing seed crystals for further crystal growth, which build up as hard scale. [citation needed] Physical water treatment (PWT) devices cause microscopic mineral crystals to form and remain suspended as they flow with the water, while also acting as seeds for further crystal growth. As water is heated ...
Magnesium sulfate relaxation is the primary mechanism that causes the absorption of sound in seawater at frequencies above 10 kHz [13] (acoustic energy is converted to thermal energy). Lower frequencies are less absorbed by the salt, so that low frequency sound travels farther in the ocean. Boric acid and magnesium carbonate also contribute to ...
Dypingite is a hydrated magnesium carbonate mineral with the formula: Mg 5 (CO 3) 4 (OH) 2 ·5H 2 O. Its type locality is the Dypingdal serpentine-magnesite deposit, Snarum, Norway. Synthethic dypingite is known as heavy magnesium carbonate.