When looking at calcite under a microscope, a scientist would immediately recognize the crystalline form of calcium carbonate by its rhombohedral appearance. That is, calcite is shaped like a ...

Florida is Not Known for Crystals... THIS is Why it Should Be! Finding Calcite in Fossil Clams! In today's video, PaleoCris and I went to meet up with our buddy Derek to do some rockhounding here in ...

Quasiparticles in motion: illustration of ghost polaritons in a calcite crystal being “launched” to record distances by a gold microdisk. (Courtesy: HUST) The existence of ghost hyperbolic surface ...

Sea urchins and mollusks form skeletal components from single crystals of calcite, the mineral that makes up limestone. This image (movie) shows the 3-D nanoscale structure of the inside of a ...