Fig. 5: Temporal evolution of minerals formed in the presence of inorganic phosphate with Ca/P = 3. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Temporal evolution of minerals formed in the presence of inorganic phosphate with Ca/P = 3.

From: Inorganic phosphate in growing calcium carbonate abalone shell suggests a shared mineral ancestral precursor

Fig. 5

SEM images show the minerals formed after 1 day (a–a1), 3 days (b–b1), 6 days (c–c1), and 9 days (d–d1). The schematic representation of apatite evolution towards calcite with eroded surfaces is showed in (e). FTIR spectra of minerals formed after different reaction time (f).

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