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In natural English speech, "calcium" appears in contexts such as: "They'll take ions of calcium and ions of carbon out of the water column, and they'll use it to synthesize what is effectively rock-- calcium carbonate. And if you look at the bottom of this coral polyp, then the cross-section, it's all white under there. That white is rock that's made biologically by the coral.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ˈkælsi.əm/

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They'll take ions of calcium and ions of carbon out of the water column, and they'll use it to synthesize what is effectively rock--

calcium carbonate. And if you look at the bottom of this coral polyp, then the cross-section, it's all white under there.

That white is rock that's made biologically by the coral.

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noun

The chemical element (symbol Ca) with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.

“Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.”

noun

An atom of this element.

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