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Pistil-Packing Thieves Just Uproot and Leave
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You hear of caladiums being snatched from the soil in Silver
Spring and junipers getting hijacked from a Beltsville nursery; you
check out the crime report in Fairfax County and, just about every
week this spring, you read where some dirtbag has purloined plants or
lifted leafy things.
Plantnapping -- it's a dirty business.
Joel Curtin knows. They stole his strawberries, his jade, his
aloe. They even copped his crown of thorns and it wasn't even
healthy. They waltzed right up the concrete steps of his storybook
house -- white with green trim -- in Brookland a few nights ago
and ripped ...
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Calcite vein-dikes of the Grenville Geological Province Ontario, Canada.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals
; Calcite vein-dikes in the Grenville Geological Province...mineral specimens for more than one hundred years. Calcite vein-dikes, which are composed of a high percentage of predominantly calcite, have been significantly mobile at some point...
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Calcite: The Mineral With the Most Forms
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record
; ...Michael Gray on faceted calcites, which nicely sums...the six huge faceted calcite gems pictured with the...objecting that "their" calcites have been slighted in...about the ubiquity of calcite? As the editors say...of the pictures show calcites from quite unfamiliar...
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Calcite: The Mineral With the Most Forms.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...Michael Gray on faceted calcites, which nicely sums...the six huge faceted calcite gems pictured with the...objecting that "their" calcites have been slighted in...about the ubiquity of calcite? As the editors say...of the pictures show calcites from quite unfamiliar...
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Biogenic calcite-phosphorus precipitation as a negative feedback to lake eutrophication.(Report)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
; ...calcium carbonate in the mineral form of calcite (CaC[O.sub.3]). Such lakes are...America and Europe. In temperate climates, calcite precipitation increases greatly during...warming, which reduces the solubility of calcite, and enhanced photosynthetic uptake of...
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"Skunk" calcite: mineral paragenesis in an amethyst geode from Ametista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...contain crystals of "skunk" calcite, wherein microcrystals of...composing the stripes; the calcite crystals do not show similar...investigation of the skunk calcites relied primarily on SEM with an EDX system to analyze the calcite and to image and elucidate...
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MINERALOGY OF THE CALCITE-FLUORITE VEINS NEAR LONG LAKE, NEW YORK.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; Interesting specimens of calcite, fluorite colored by dysprosium...attended the recent discovery of unusual calcite, fluorite and other minerals in veins...geology in the vicinity of the Long Lake calcite-fluorite veins is complex, consisting...
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Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New York
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record
; Interesting specimens of calcite, fluorite colored by dysprosium...attended the recent discovery of unusual calcite, fluorite and other minerals in veins...metamorphosed to granulite facies. The calcite-fluorite vein occurrence itself is...
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Direct observation of the transition from calcite to aragonite growth as induced by abalone shell proteins
Magazine article from: Biophysical Journal
; ...nucleation and growth of aragonite on calcite seed crystals in supersaturated solutions...the interaction of these proteins with calcite crystals did not observe this transition...observe changes in the atomic lattice on a calcite seed crystal after the introduction of...
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Calcite Twinning Stress Inversion Using OIM (EBSD) Data
Magazine article from: Geolines
; Deformation origin of calcite twin lamellae (e-twins) and their...calcitic rocks (or rocks containing calcite veins). Several methods of differential...experimental and field data. Orientation of calcite twin lamellae as well as the c-axis...
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Aragonite production in calcite seas: effect of seawater Mg/Ca ratio on the calcification and growth of the calcareous alga Penicillus capitatus
Magazine article from: Paleobiology
; ...three transitions between the low-Mg calcite (molar Mg/Ca <2) and aragonite + high-Mg calcite (molar Mg/Ca >2) nucleation fields...remaining within the aragonitic/high-Mg calcite nucleation field (molar Mg/Ca >...
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