Berkeley Lab research could help scientists predict how
carbon is stored underground
Computer simulations conducted at the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help
scientists make sense of a recently observed and puzzling wrinkle in one of
nature’s most important chemical processes. It turns out that calcium
carbonate—the ubiquitous compound that is a major component of seashells,
limestone, concrete, antacids and myriad other naturally and industrially
produced substances—may momentarily exist in liquid form as it crystallizes
from solution.