Calcium compounds are compounds of calcium and other elements that are usually found in the human body. They include calcium carbonate, calcium hydroxide, calcium oxalate, as well as calcium phosphate and calcium sulfate.
It’s also important to note that calcium can be found in many different forms within the body. It’s usually found in a crystal structure and is usually found in bones, teeth, and skin. To make things easier for us, the human body is full of these compounds.
This is probably one of the most important things to note, is that calcium carbonate, calcium oxalate, and calcium phosphate are very different substances. Calcium carbonate and calcium oxalate are essentially the same thing, only calcium carbonate is much more soluble in water than calcium oxalate. Calcium phosphate is a very different substance than calcium hydroxyapatite.
Calcium carbonate is the most soluble in water, and is what the body uses to put calcium into our bones. The body converts calcium carbonate (which is the main compound found in bones) into calcium and calcium in water. It is important to note that calcium carbonate is found in all body tissues and cells, but does not form bones. Calcium oxalate is found in the bones and teeth, but is not converted to calcium and calcium in water.
The body converts calcium carbonate to calcium and calcium in water, but not to calcium and calcium in water. Calcium carbonate and calcium oxalate are both soluble in water. Calcium carbonate cannot be dissolved in water, and calcium oxalate cannot be dissolved in water.
In the early 20th century, the discovery of calcium carbonate and calcium oxalate began to make these compounds very valuable in the food and pharmaceutical industries. In the 1950s, as the prices of the raw materials rose, these compounds began to be sold on the black market. Eventually, these products became so popular that they were smuggled into the United States. In 1969, the United States created the Calcium and Magnesium Council to regulate these products.
This is the first of two articles that go in depth about the history of calcium compounds. For now, I’ll just direct you to this video and leave you to your own devices.
If you’re a fan of the fictional pharmaceutical company Calan-C, you may get a kick out of this video. Calan-C was created to create a substance that could replace the calcium and magnesium found in many of our bones. In this video, Ill explain how this happened. The Calcium Council began the process of creating this substance by creating a special formula. By the time Calan-C was created, though, the price of supplies had risen.
The problem is, since this formula was so expensive, one of the few companies that could afford it, was making a profit, while the other was losing money. So Calan-C’s CEO, Walter, decided to create a way to make sure that the formula could be more affordable. He would create a new substance and then charge a small fee for it. This substance would be the cheapest and easiest to make, but it would also have the highest yield.
If you want to make calan-C, the way to do it was to combine calcium with water and add it to a crucible. Then heat the mixture to a temperature where the calcium was converted to calcium hydroxide. And just like that the calcium-hydroxide formula was born.