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Carbonate ions have a negative charge, and they therefore repel other carbonate ions (like charges repel, as described by Coulomb's Law). You can only have a group of carbonate ions in a material if that material also contains positively charged ions which will attract the negatively charged carbonate ions. Calcium carbonate is an example of such a material.

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