Study in Calcium Carbonate Crystal Formation at the Air/Water Interface in the Presence of a Magnetic Field

Abstract

Calcium carbonate aggregates as calcite on the surface of a Ca(OH)2 solution exposed to air. We grew these crystals on solution of initial concentration 0.30 mg/L. Our studies show static magnetic field to have no effect on the fractal dimension of these crystals. Fields up to 10 kG parallel to the interface, 2 kG perpendicular to the interface, as well as high gradient were examined. For all conditions fractal dimension was Df = 1.61 t 0.05.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 17, 2001
Accession Number
ADA395048

Entities

People

  • Timothy M. Paschke

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aragonite
  • Calcium
  • Calcium Compounds
  • Calcium Hydroxide
  • Carbonates
  • Crystal Structure
  • Crystals
  • Elements
  • Fluids
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hydroxides
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnets
  • Parallel Orientation
  • Two Dimensional
  • Water

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  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics