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(atomic #20)
(from latin word for “lime”)
(which is a ‘calcium compound’)
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-“calcium” is a soft gray ‘alkaline earth metal’-
*5th-most-abundant element (by ‘mass’) in the earth‘s ‘crust’)
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(the ion Ca2+ is also the fifth-most-abundant dissolved ion in seawater by both molarity and mass, after sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate)
(‘free calcium metal’ is too ‘reactive’ to occur in ‘nature’)
(‘calcium’ is produced in the ‘explosions’ at the end of the ‘life’ of ‘massive stars’)
(“calcium” is essential for ‘living organisms’, in particular in ‘cell physiology’, where movement of the ‘calcium ion’ into and out of the ‘cytoplasm’ functions as a ‘signal’ for many ‘cellular processes’)
(as a major ‘material’ used in ‘mineralization’ of ‘bone’, ‘teeth’, and ‘shells’, ‘calcium’ is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals)
(‘dairy products’ contain large amounts of ‘calcium’)
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