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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or formed from aragonite

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  • Each either have these are the aragonitic needles that both make up and protect the scleractinia

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Each either have these are the aragonitic needles that both make up and protect the scleractinia

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • It is made of bundles of aragonitic needles that protect the scleractinia.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • It is made of bundles of aragonitic needles that protect the scleractinia.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Great Bahama Bank aragonitic muds: mostly inorganically precipitated, mostly exported - discussion.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Though most scientists believed that corals were programmed to produce only the aragonitic form of calcium carbonate, he said, the team’s work reveals that corals are far more flexible and able to vary at least a portion of their skeleton to growth favored by seawater chemistry.

    Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit 2006

  • I personally don’t like terms used in the report such as…’Though most scientists believed that corals were programmed to produce only the aragonitic form of calcium carbonate, he said, the team’s work reveals that corals are far more flexible and able to vary at least a portion of their skeleton to growth favored by seawater chemistry.’

    Thompson: "Remarkably Similar" « Climate Audit 2006

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