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| View Larger Image | Calcium Carbonate: From the Cretaceous Period into the 21st Century | Hardcoverby F. Wolfgang Tegethoff (Editor), J. Rohleder (Editor), E. Kroker (Editor)
| List Price: | $189.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Birkhäuser Basel | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 342 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 18, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 2,046,857nd |
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Product Description
What do chalk, limestone and marble have in common? They are all composed of calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3. The diversity of uses of this mineral are just as multifarious as the diversity of its compounds encountered in nature. Calcium Carbonate - From the Cretaceous Period into the 21st Century presents all the facets of this white mineral, thereby uniting the entire world of calcium carbonate within its covers - its geology, art history, extraction and processing and, self-evidently, its uses in modern industry. The most important limestone deposits, the role of marble in antiquity, and the characteristics of calcium carbonate as a pigment and filter for paper, plastics and paints, are all presented in a concise, readily understandable form. This makes the book an invaluable companion in the day-to-day work of the specialist in industry and research, and it gives interested layman acces to the complex interdependencies of this fascinating mineral. In collaboration with Johannes Rohleder and Evelyn Kroker, (Ed.) |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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Life-altering by 2nearsighted (Dublin, OH)  5 Stars
September 10, 2003
I'm a big fan of books that give the sweeping histories of common, overlooked substances, particularly when they use language that a layman can understand. (One of my favorites is The 13th Element, which gives the complete history of phosphorus and its promethean relationship to mankind.) Dealing with Calcium Carbonate, this book lives up to its ambitious title, showing how the mineral has influenced everything in civilization, from the earliest chalk artworks, to the plastic on our keyboards. Read this book and you will never look at limestone or paper or a bottle of Tums the same way again. Calcium is as indispensible a part of our experience on earth as carbon or oxygen or nitrogen or cadmium, or any other elements. And what's most remarkable about this book is that it's compelling for everyone. As most of you can probably already infer--I'm not the brightest bulb around. Yet I was enlightened and entertained, from the Cretaceous Period straight through to today. Nice work.
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