title: Calcium carbonate crystallization in the presence of taurine.
abstract: The kinetics of calcite (CaCO(3)) crystallization on calcite seed crystals in the presence of taurine was investigated by the constant composition method. The presence of taurine (4 x 10(- 5)- 4 x 10(-4)M) in the supersaturated solutions lead to calcite crystals with a characteristic discontinuous planes of growth and poor habit, as compared to the hombohedral morphology of the seed crystals. The acceleration effect of taurine on the crystal growth rate was 17-96%. The apparent order of the crystal growth was found to be 2.0+/- 0.2 typical for a surface diffusion-controlled spiral growth processes.
authors: Department of Chemistry, University of Patras, GR-26504, Patras, Greece.
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