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Science 2 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4345, pp. 1059 - 1060
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4345.1059

Articles

Mineralization Kinetics: A Constant Composition Approach

M. B. TOMSON 1 and G. H. NANCOLLAS 1

1 Chemistry Department, State University of New York, Buffalo 14214

A new method is described for studying, reproducibly, the kinetics of crystallization of minerals under conditions of constant solution composition even at very low supersaturations. For calcium phosphates the method provides direct evidence for octacalcium phosphate as the precursor to hydroxyapatite precipitation at physiological pH.

Submitted on December 21, 1977
Revised on February 28, 1978


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