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The solubility of calcium carbonate in tropical sea water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. L. Smith
C. L. Smith
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Late Bahamas Sponge Fishery Investigations Department
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In a previous paper (Smith, 1940b) the chemical changes observed in ocean sea water flowing across the shallow banks on the west coast of Andros Island (Bahamas) were reported. High salinities were produced by evaporation and calcium carbonate was precipitated. From the data obtained under natural conditions a maximum value of the solubility product constant of calcium carbonate in sea water was suggested. There was no reason to believe, however, that this value of the constant represented the true equilibrium conditions, and experiments have since been made in the laboratory with a view to bringing water from these banks into equilibrium with solid calcium carbonate.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , November 1941 , pp. 235 - 242
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1941

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