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What simple test can be used to distinguish between calcite and dolomite in granular form?
Calcite will react vigorously when placed in dilute HCL. Dolomite will not.
Does calcium carbon dioxide and water combine to form calcite?
True
What oxygen and carbon combine to form calcite?
Calcium, Oxygen and Carbon
What is the chemical name for the mineral calcite?
Calcite is a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate. This compound has the formula Ca2+CO32-. Calcium carbonate exists in other polymorphs as well. These are aragonite and vaterite.
Why would this reaction be much slower in an underground cave than on the surface?
because ut is bumpy because the stalagmites form
How are carbonic acid caverns and dripstone related?
carbonic acid dissolves rock to form cavens, and dripstone is dissolved clcium corbonate in thr form of stalagmites/stalagtites
In what rock stalagmites is formed?
Limestone - they are of calcite, the crystalline form of the rock's primary constituent, calcium carbonate.
Where in caves do you find calcite?
Precipitated as stalactites, stalagmites etc - and it is the primary constituent of the limestone in which the vast majority of caves form!
What mineral forms stalactites and stalagmites?
A metamorphic form of limestone is marble.
Are stalagmites and stalagtites the same thing?
Nearly. Same material and process - precipitation of dissolved calcium carbonate - but stalagmites grow up form cave floors ("g" for ground) and stalactites grow down from the roof ("c" in the middle of the word, not "g", and stands for ceiling").
How are stalagmites made?
Precipitation of calcium carbonate in its crystalline form, calcite, from solution in weakly acid ground-water from the limestone above the cave.
How do mud stalagmites form?
Liquid mud drips from a more elevated point onto one spot and hardens. this is repeated many times until a mound or stalagmite is formed.
Where is the precipitate calcite commonly found to create formations in the ground?
calcite is found all over the united states
Is this statement correct Stalagmites form on the ceiling of a cavern?
No, it is stalactites that form on the ceilings. Stalagmites form on the cavern floors.
Can you form a stalactites and stalagmites?
In theory you could in a laboratory if you establish conditions conducive to rapid precipitation and crystallising of the calcite - but I don't know why you would need to when it's easier to analyse natural ones!
How do stalactites and stalagmites form?
Stalagmites form when water from the stalactite drips down water and that water has minerals in it
True or false is limestone formed from mud that hardens into rock?
Not 'mud', it is the remains of shells and skeletons of dead sea creatures, as well as precipitated calcite that eventually lithify to form limestone.
