#calciumcarbonate — Public Fediverse posts

Baking egg shells, as one does. For most of my life I added these to holes dug for tomatoes (because Mom), but I've since learned that that has no effect at all because the calcium carbonate doesn't really dissociate in real time unless you dose it with acids. Same reason I've stopped adding them to the compost. I'm going to grind them up and offer to local birds (I don't have chickens anymore). #CalciumCarbonate #eggs #eggshells #birds #calcium #calcite #chemistry #compost #tomatoes

The 3 kitchen scraps I never throw away if I want sweet, ripe tomatoes https://www.allforgardening.com/1886402/the-3-kitchen-scraps-i-never-throw-away-if-i-want-sweet-ripe-tomatoes/ #BananaPeels #CalciumCarbonate #CoffeeGrounds #garden #gardening #RipeTomatoes #Shutterstock #TomatoPlants

Homemade Tooth Powder Without Baking Soda: Natural, Remineralizing Recipe

By Roslyn
November 19, 2025

"You’ve likely heard of using baking soda to brush your teeth. And while it may do a great job, I personally can not handle the taste of baking soda. Some also find it’s abrasiveness can be hard on their gums. So, when I wanted to start using a homemade natural toothpaste or tooth powder, a must have for me was for it to be baking soda free.

Not only is this tooth powder a great alternative to a baking soda toothpaste, in my opinion it works better as well. It’s packed with mineral filled ingredients that help to naturally balance the acids in your mouth, and naturally remineralize your teeth.

In this post, you’ll learn how to make tooth powder with #BentoniteClay and #CalciumCarbonate."

Learn more:
https://breezieshouse.com/tooth-powder/

#SolarPunkSunday #DIY #DIYPersonalCare #PersonalCareProducts

Again, don't do this with bare skin (use safety equipment and appropriate precautions)

#WoodAshCement

July 17, 2018, PrimitiveTechnology

"I developed an experimental cement from made only from re-fired #WoodAsh as its #cementitious material. It was mixed with crushed #terracotta as an aggregate and formed into a cube. The cement set hard after 3 days and did not dissolve in water after this period.

"Process: First I burnt bark and leaves in a kiln at high temperatures to produce well burnt, mostly white wood ash. The ash was then mixed into water and stirred well. The excess water was poured off and the resulting paste was made into pellets and allowed to dry. A pellet was then re-heated in the #forge until it glowed about orange hot. This was then taken out, cooled and dropped in a pot of water. The pellet dissolved and boiled due to a chemical reaction with the water. The paste was stirred and crushed terracotta (old tiles from previous projects) was added and mixed to form a mouldable #mortar. This was formed into a cube and allowed to set for three days (in the video, a cube made exactly the same way 3 days previously was used due to time constraints). The resultant cube was strong and made a slight ringing sound when tapped with a finger nail. It was placed in water for 24 hours to simulate a very heavy rain event and did not dissolve or release residues into the water.

"My current theory: The main component of wood ash consists of #calcium in some form (e.g. #CalciumCarbonate, #CalciumOxide). This can be up to 45% from my research. Calcium is in higher concentration in the #bark and #leaves of a tree. When the ash is mixed with water, the soluble component of wood ash (10% pot ash) dissolves into the water. But seeing that it does nothing for the cementing process, it is drained off leaving the insoluble calcium (and other components) in the paste. Doing this probably raises the relative percentage of calcium in the paste to about 50% or more. Most of the other 50 % consists of silica and alumina which are #pozzolans, materials that chemically react with calcium hydroxide to increase the durability of the cement product. The paste was then made into a pellet and fired again to high temperature to convert all the calcium compounds to calcium oxide. It also reduces any charcoal in the pellet to ash if it hadn’t already been burnt the first time. This step seemed important as un-fired ash pellets only partially hardened and would fall apart in water, though retaining a weak undissolved 5mm thick crust. I can only surmise that re-firing the ash just gave a greater conversion of the calcium components to calcium oxide. The pellet is slaked in water converting the calcium oxide to calcium hydroxide. This cement was mixed with crushed terracotta which may also help in some way that I’m not aware of as I only did this one experiment and did not test other aggregates yet (e.g. sand, gravel etc.). Terracotta is porous and might hold together better than other materials. The mixture is allowed to set in air where carbon dioxide reacts with calcium hydroxide to form calcium carbonate cementing the aggregate together. After this, the cement will not dissolve in water.

"Use: I think this material might have a potential use as a mortar holding rocks or bricks together in wet environments where #limestone or #SnailShells are unavailable for making cement. Wood ash is a pretty ubiquitous material to most natural environments inhabited by people using biomass fuels. Wood ash cement turns a waste product into a valuable building material. From my research, wood ash is already being used as a partial replacement for cement in the building industry without decreases in strength of the final product. But I’ve only just started experimenting with it and don’t know its full capabilities and limitations. Calcium content of wood ash differs depending on the species of tree, the part of the tree burnt and the soil it’s grown on. Cautious experimentation is still required before committing to a hut built from this material."

Learn more:
https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/wood-ash-cement/

#SolarPunkSunday #DIY #Cement #Woodashes #BuildingMaterials

Making And Using #Lime #Mortars

An article originally written for "Rural Wales" the magasine of CPRW

"The operation of modern #cement and lime mortar is quite different. Cements set by a non-reversible chemical action to form a solid, non yielding mass. #LimeMortars set by the absorption of #CarbonDioxide over a much longer period of time. An understanding of the chemical action of lime is therefore helpful.

"Lime is derived from #limestone or Calcium Carbonate (#CaCO3), which has been burnt in a lime kiln at over 800 degrees centigrade to produce #quicklime or #CalciumOxide (#CaO). In this process carbon dioxide and any water is driven off. Quicklime is potentially dangerous having an avid thirst for water. This process creates a lot of heat and produces #SlakedLime or #CalciumHydroxide (Ca(OH)2). Builders merchants stock this material having been reground to a fine powder and called #HydratedLime.

"The slaking process releases enough heat to cause the water to boil or spit. For this reason water must NEVER be added to quicklime. The lime must ALWAYS be added slowly into the water in a metal container. For the inexperienced builder or home craftsman, slaking is therefore not recommended.

"#HydratedLime can be used as the basis of all lime plasters and mortars. It will slowly absorb free carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and revert to #CalciumCarbonate. A triangle has therefore been completed converting the #calcium back to its original chemical form of limestone. For this reason lime mortars have the potential for #ContinuousRecycling."

Learn more:
http://www.users.callnetuk.com/~gwynedd21/home/JN/LIME.HTM

#SolarPunkSunday #SustainableBuilding #Recyclable #Reusable #LimePlaster #LimeMortar #AncientTechnology #TraditionalTechnology #SustainableBuildingMaterials #ZeroWaste

NOTE: As someone pointed out, this is a DANGEROUS process and requires a lot of safety precautions. I would refer to other instructions with more safety measures. I posted this more for the uses of #Lime (as opposed to using tons of chemicals).

Burn #Seashell #Lime in a Primitive Straw/Clay #Kiln!

By skillcult

"In this project we use Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral to make something with a multitude of practical uses. The text is detailed and stands alone, but the videos are very useful and entertaining. Video #1, the Quicky version, is the 7 minute general interest, entertainment version. Video #2, buildcult, is the long educational 20 minute version. I'd recommend watching the short version first, before reading this instructable, so that you have a visual reference. I did my best to make it worth 7 minutes of your life. I conceived this project for the Brave the Elements contest, which you can vote in here, hint hint.

"The goal is to build a kiln from natural materials in order to burn and slake #lime for #seashells. Lime is immensely valuable! If lime disappeared tomorrow, civilization would fall hard! It is the main ingredient in cement and can be used to make #mortar and #plaster. It can also be used in the arts for #limewash and fresco, in #Soapmaking, mixed with casein (milk protein) to make #PreIndustrial waterproof #glue and #paint, for smelting and refining metal, and to remove hair and prepare skins for rawhide, hide glue or tanning. Ever read the ingredients on your tortillas or tortilla chips and seen 'traces of lime'? That’s because lime is used in processing #corn kernels to make tortillas, hominy and grits, which is easy to do at home. Not only does it make corn more nutritious and digestible, but it also lends to the unique flavor of those products. Beet sugar is processed with lime too. Lime is also used to potentiate certain drug substances such as betel nut and coca leaves, a small bit of lime being chewed with the plant material to activate it. So, yeah, wow, lime is one of the most useful substances ever!

"A WORD ON SAFETY: A lot of people think that lime is some deadly scary chemical that will burn you face off. It’s not… not really... well, maybe. #QuickLime is dangerous, but that is a brief transient state. During #slaking, the quicklime will give off heat and boil vigorously, so that is dangerous since the stuff can splatter around and is not only hot, but also highly alkaline. So, yeah, okay, maybe doing a face plant in a boiling tub of quicklime may burn your face off. Don’t do that! Otherwise, the stuff is not that horrible, and people have been making #tortillas, mixing mortar, plastering walls and tanning leather without goggles and hazmat suits for a very long time. It is also non-toxic. You definitely don’t want your pets drinking lime water or your kids playing with lime, but that is due to it’s concentration mostly, and not to inherent toxicity. When diluted, it becomes less and less caustic and is at some point completely harmless. Once converted to #CalciumCarbonate by drying, it’s just like egg shells, sea shells or stone, not only non-toxic, but actually used as a #calcium supplement. So, don’t get it in your eyes, keep it away from children and pets, be careful when slaking and use common sense and everything will be fine. It will temporarily dry skin though skin though, so be aware of that.

"Before we get to the fun stuff, let me explain how this works. Don’t be intimidated by the chemistry terms, they aren’t important. The changes lime goes through have a name, The Lime Cycle. By heating stone or shells red hot, about 900 Celcius (called calcining), we can change lime from it’s stable inert form, calcium carbonate, into #Calciumxide. Calcium oxide, aka Qucklime, is the most unstable and highly reactive form of lime. Quicklime reacts violently with water, giving off tremendous heat and boiling vigorously. This reaction with water makes it into #CalciumHydroxide, which is similar to #lye, but not as strong. This is the form that is used the most in the arts and industries mentioned above. If the lime is kept under a layer of water, it will not only keep forever, but it improves with age! This stuff is called lime putty. You may be more familiar with the dry lime you can buy in a bag, which is dry calcium hydroxide. This bagged powdered #HydratedLime is widely available, but inferior to wet #SlakedLime putty. You can hardly buy lime putty, and it is very expensive, but you can make it! For more on the forms of lime see my article, Understanding Lime.

"Basically, #LimePutty is like liquid rocks. Once it is allowed to dry with exposure to air, it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and turns back into a hard rock (or shell, which is pretty much the same thing). Think about that for a second. That is awesome!

"And thus the lime cycle is completed from rock or shell, to quicklime, to lime putty, and back to rock/shell.

"In my book, it doesn't get much funner than burning and slaking lime, so lets get this party started!"

Learn more:
https://www.instructables.com/Burn-Seashell-Lime-in-a-Primitive-StrawClay-Kiln/

#SolarPunkSunday #OldTech #LowTech #LoTech #DIY #TraditionalTechnology
#AncientTechnology #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #History #HistoricalMethods #OldTech #SeashellLime

Burning #SeaShells to make #quicklime

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Per Storemyr

"Burning seashells to make quicklime once was a great tradition in the #NorthAtlantic region. In Millstone Park, Hyllestad (W-Norway), we have built two #limekilns, reviving old lime burning traditions, involving #craftspeople, volunteers and the public. Recently we burnt sea shells to make #LimePaint and #mortar! Read about the experiment in a new poster and web article."

https://per-storemyr.net/2018/11/10/burning-sea-shells-to-make-quicklime/

#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalTechnology #AncientTechnology #Romans #Vikings #CalciumCarbonate #TraditionalMortar #Plaster #Paint #Limestone #Marble #History #HistoricalMethods #LowTech #OldTech

#Nixtamalization

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Nixtamalization (/ˌnɪʃtəməlɪˈzeɪʃən, ˌnɪks-/ nish-tə-mə-lih-ZAY-shən) is a process for the preparation of maize (corn), or other grain, in which the grain is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater (but sometimes aqueous alkali metal carbonates),washed, and then hulled. The term can also refer to the removal via an alkali process of the pericarp from other grains such as sorghum.

" #NixtamalizedCorn has several benefits over unprocessed grain: It is more easily ground, its nutritional value is increased, flavor and aroma are improved, and mycotoxins are reduced by up to 97–100% (for aflatoxins).

"Lime and #ash are highly alkaline: the alkalinity helps the dissolution of #hemicellulose, the major glue-like component of the maize cell walls, and loosens the hulls from the kernels and softens the #maize. The tryptophan in corn proteins is made more available for human absorption, thus helping to prevent niacin deficiency (pellagra).  Tryptophan is the metabolic precursor of endogenous niacin (Vitamin B3).

"Some of the corn oil is broken down into emulsifying agents (monoglycerides and diglycerides), while bonding of the maize proteins to each other is also facilitated. The divalent calcium in lime acts as a cross-linking agent for protein and polysaccharide acidic side chains.

"While cornmeal made from untreated ground maize is unable by itself to form a dough on addition of water, nixtamalized cornmeal will form a dough, called #masa. These benefits make nixtamalization a crucial preliminary step for further processing of maize into food products, and the process is employed using both traditional and industrial methods in the production of #tortillas and #TortillaChips (but not corn chips), #tamales, #hominy, and many other foodstuffs.

Etymology

"In the #Aztec language Nahuatl, the word for the product of this procedure is #nixtamalli or #nextamalli (pronounced [niʃtaˈmalːi] or [neʃtaˈmalːi]), which in turn has yielded Mexican Spanish #nixtamal ([nistaˈmal]). The Nahuatl word is a compound of nextli "lime ashes" and tamalli "unformed/cooked corn dough, tamal". The term #nixtamalization can also be used to describe the removal of the pericarp from any grain by an #alkali process, including maize, #sorghum, and others. When the unaltered Spanish spelling nixtamalización is used in written English, however, it almost exclusively refers to maize.

"The labels on packages of commercially sold tortillas prepared with nixtamalized maize usually list corn treated with #lime as an ingredient in English, while the Spanish versions list maíz nixtamalizado.

Impact on health

"The primary nutritional benefits of nixtamalization arise from the alkaline processing involved. The processing renders the protein more digestible, allowing tryptophan to be absorbed by humans. Humans can convert tryptophan into niacin, thus helping to prevent pellagra. Other measures of protein quality are also improved.  It was originally thought that the anti-pellagra action stems from increased availability of niacin (compared to a hemicellulose-bound form called "niacytin"), but multiple experiments have disproven this theory.

"Secondary benefits can arise from the grain's absorption of minerals from the alkali used or from the vessels used in preparation. These effects can increase #calcium (by 750%, with 85% available for absorption), iron, copper, and zinc.[4]

"Nixtamalization significantly deactivates #mycotoxins which are putative carcinogens. #Aflatoxins are reduced by 90–94%. Fumonisins are reduced by 82%."

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization

#SolarPunkSunday #NativeAmericanFoods #NativeAmericanHistory #Corn #BlueCorn #MesoAmerica #TraditionalFoods #CulinaryAsh #CalciumCarbonate #History #FoodHistory #Corn #PlantAshes

So, one of the topics for this week's #SolarPunkSunday is #ticks! I came across some interesting #DIY stuff (and more uses for #DuctTape [#DuckTape] -- which is something most #Mainahs have on hand).

Also, #MaineStateParks just announced some programs and special events. I also came across some recipes for #BlackBeans and #BlueCorn (and how to process it), making one's own #Lime and #CalciumCarbonate, and articles about #IndigenousFood and #FoodSovereignty.

And of course, some upcoming events, including #RepairCafes! I hope you'll join us and feel free to use the hashtag #SolarPunkSunday! It's all about #BuildingCommunity and #SharingIdeas!

This #GreenConcrete Is Made From #Urine: German Scientists Recreate Sandstone Texture Using Waste in #EcoTech Breakthrough

In a groundbreaking development that could redefine sustainable construction, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have successfully transformed human urine into a robust and eco-friendly bio-concrete, paving the way for innovative building materials that dramatically reduce environmental impact.

The bio-concrete’s chemical composition closely resembles that of natural #sandstone, indicating a harmonious blend with nature.

by Gabriel Cruz, 05/10/2025

🌿 Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have developed an eco-friendly #BioConcrete using human urine.
🔬 The innovative process involves microbial #biomineralization, where bacteria convert urea into #CalciumCarbonate crystals.
🏗️ Bio-concrete offers a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete, reducing environmental impact and emissions.
🚀 The project aims to integrate bio-concrete into a #CircularEconomy, transforming waste into valuable building materials.

"In a groundbreaking exploration of sustainable construction methods, researchers at the University of Stuttgart have pioneered a method to transform waste into a valuable resource. By converting human urine into eco-friendly bio-concrete, they are paving the way for a new era of green building materials. This innovative approach not only seeks to reduce the environmental impact of construction but also leverages a commonly wasted resource to create something beneficial for society. The project’s implications stretch beyond mere construction, hinting at a sustainable future where waste is a key ingredient in building our world."

Read more:
https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/this-green-concrete-is-made-from-urine-german-scientists-recreate-sandstone-texture-using-waste-in-eco-tech-breakthrough/

#SolarPunkSunday #TechnologyBreakthrough #ZeroWaste #HumanUrine #SolarPunk

https://www.europesays.com/britain/37851/ Natural Toothpaste Market in the United Kingdom | Report – IndexBox #AbrasiveSystems(silica #BakingSoda) #CalciumCarbonate #ConsumerGoodsMarketReport #CosmeticWhitening #DailyOralHygiene #Flavoring(essentialOils #FoamingAgents(coconutDerived) #forecast #GumHealthMaintenance #MarketAnalysis #NaturalPreservativeSystems #NaturalToothpaste #SensitiveTeethCare #UK #UnitedKingdom #xylitol)

Carbon removal project supports Maine’s blue economy, broader marine health | MIT News

Oceans absorb roughly 25 to 30 percent of the car…
#Economy #acidicseawater #aquaculture #blueeconomy #Calciumcarbonate #climatecrisis #CoFloMedical #DamariscottaRiverEstuary #DamianBrady #KripaVaranasi #MITMechE #MookSeaFarms #oceanacidity #oysterfarming #Oysterlarvae #shellfishhatcheries #SimonRufer #T.AlanHatton #threattooystershells #UniversityofMaineDarlingMarineCenter
https://www.europesays.com/2918143/

https://www.europesays.com/2918143/ Carbon removal project supports Maine’s blue economy, broader marine health | MIT News #AcidicSeawater #aquaculture #BlueEconomy #CalciumCarbonate #ClimateCrisis #CoFloMedical #DamariscottaRiverEstuary #DamianBrady #Economy #KripaVaranasi #MITMechE #MookSeaFarms #OceanAcidity #OysterFarming #OysterLarvae #ShellfishHatcheries #SimonRufer #TAlanHatton #ThreatToOysterShells #UniversityOfMaineDarlingMarineCenter

In biology/geology "#marinesnow" refers to the #organicdebris of organisms from higher #waterlevels. The #carboncycle thus transfers #CO2 to the #seabed, thus binding the #greenhousegas.
B. Borer et al. (2026) found that #microbial components of this "snow" induce #calciumcarbonate #dissolution in higher waters, reducing their #settlingvelocity and requiring consideration in future #climatemodels.
©#StefanFWirth

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Leaching Of Legacy Paper Mill Sludge Induces Lithification By Cementation Of Fluvial Sediment
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2025.100523 <-- shared paper
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[For almost 300 years – from 1709 to 2004 – Penicuik and district was producing high-quality paper which went out all over the world; Walter Scott’s Waverley novels and Robert Louis Stevenson’s notebooks were printed on Penicuik paper, and Turner painted on it too.]
#Legacy #Papermill #Penicuik #Midlothian #scotland #Sludge #Anthropogenic #lithification #Conglomerate #Cementation #geology #water #hydrology #fluvial #sediment #calcium #leacging #river #stream #waterways #streambed #calciumcarbonate #CaCO3 #SEM #EDX #sampling #XRD #waste #wastemanagement #industrial #industry #industrialwaste #pollution #sedimentology #geochemistry #papermillsludge #PMS

5-Jul-2025
Fig trees convert atmospheric #CO2 to stone

Some species of #figTrees store #calciumCarbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089863

#science #carbonSequestration #environment #climateCatastrophe

Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #HackadayColumns #chemistryhacks #OriginalArt #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #Chemistry #FlowStone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit

Boss Byproducts: Calthemites Are Man-Made Cave Dwellers - Some lovely orange calthemite flowstone colored so by iron oxide from rusting stee... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/20/boss-byproducts-calthemites-are-man-made-cave-dwellers/ #calciumcarbonate #secondarydeposit #hackadaycolumns #chemistryhacks #originalart #calthemite #stalactite #stalagmite #chemistry #flowstone #ironoxide #concrete #deposit

These rocks that look a bit like limestone cave formations growing on a substrate of basalt (a rock not known for growing such things) are tufa (calcium carbonate) that were deposited with the help of algae, so said the sign at Picnic Cave, a short way down the ledge. It means cyanobacteria, blue-green algae. Tufa forms underwater. These were formed when Lake Lahontan covered over the area, likely when its height was controlled by overflow over Darwin Pass, which is about the same height.

#Nevada #geology #tufa #calciumcarbonate #foundWhileHiking #hiking

Back to US-50, I completed the circle through Nevada with one last little hike joining a pair of interpretive trails outside Fallon. The interpretive trail at Grimes Point showcases the 8000 year old petroglyphs of the area. The interpretive trail at Hidden Cave showcases the geology including the tufa with its human connections.

New blog post: https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2023/12/grimes-point-and-hidden-cave.html

#USA #Nevada #StillwaterBLM #GrimesPoint #HiddenCave

#hiking #dayhike #desert #petroglyphs #tufa #nature #landscape #outside #travel #hike #interpretivetrail #calciumcarbonate

#ClimateCrisis: #OceanAcidification in the #Mediterranean is already affecting the #calcification of marine #plankton https://phys.org/news/2023-11-ocean-acidification-mediterranean-affecting-calcification.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00947-7

"#Foraminifera #protists... build a shell, several hundred micrometers in size, which is made of #CalciumCarbonate... these #calcite structures are highly sensitive to changes in seawater #chemistry... This is reflected in an accelerated decrease in shell weight during the 20th century."

#Researchers discover a #NewSpecies of larger #benthic #foraminifer from the #Ryukyu islands
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-species-larger-benthic-foraminifer-ryukyu.html paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018223003826 #protists #forams

"#Foraminifera are tiny, single-celled organisms that live in the #oceans. Their hard shells, made of #CalciumCarbonate, can withstand the test of time and their #fossils reveal a lot about Earth's history, including past climates and environments."

📢🆕 We've updated our safety assessment of #CalciumCarbonate (E 170) when used as #FoodAdditive
No safety concerns associated with exposure to E 170 per se. However, intake of aluminium, which can be present as an impurity in E 170, represents a concern
https://europa.eu/!3rYHvP

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EFSA_EU/status/1684544865885884417

Re #DYK #CalciumCarbonate is used as white food colour, anticaking agent or to regulate the acidity or alkalinity of foods such as fruit juices, pastes and preserves.
E 170 can also be used as a source of #calcium in different foods and food #supplements
#FoodAdditive

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EFSA_EU/status/1684544872273825792

Oh, yeah. The latest developments about my quest to return to a more or less good night of sleep.

I did not need earplugs, but now I do.

I did need white noise, but now I don't.

I've switched my anti-reflux medicine from generic Tums (calcium carbonate) to a proton pump inhibitor.

Temperature lowered from 74F to 72F. (That's 3.293 cats to 3.143 cats for those who measure in cats.)

My last few nights have been interrupted by me peeing.

#ActuallyAutistic #sleep #insomnia #earplugs #WhiteNoise #CalciumCarbonate #ProtonPumpInhibitor

#Calcite, a #crystal form of #CalciumCarbonate (#CaCO3), that has a fascinating way of distorting and refracting the light that passes through it, such as the color patterns in this “nailhead spar” piece of calcite.
Get a print or merchandise here: https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/calcite-specimen-2-heron-and-fox.html
#RocksOfMastodon, #Minerology, #Geology, #OpticCalcite, #NailHeadSpar, #Macro #Photograph, #MacroPhotography

Today's Flickr photos with the most hits: the travertine cascades and pools at Pamukkale (cotton castle), Turkey.

The carbonate terraces were laid down by water from hot thermal springs running down the hillside, causing the minerals to precipitate out of the solution.

The site has been attracting visitors since ancient times.

#pamukkale #ThermalSprings #cascade #pools #CalciumCarbonate