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Originally Posted by Richard W. Wise Ziede,
More on this conchilin thing. The bleaching eats the conchilon? My understanding is that conchilin is a glue like protein binder although some call it calcium carbonate, that is between the aragonite layers. |
Hi Richard,
Conchiolin is an organic protein. It is not a mineral, and so it cannot be any kind of calcium carbonate, even if some call it that. It is the aragonite crystals that are a type of calcium carbonate, in orthorhombic(twinned) crystal form.
Slraep