Apatite vs Guano - What's the difference?
apatite | guano |
(mineral) A calcium fluoride phosphate of variable composition, sometimes used in the manufacture of fertilizer.
* 1967', Duncan McConnell ''et al.'', "Infrared Absorption of Carbonate '''Apatite ," ''Science, New Series , vol. 155, no. 3762, p. 608,
Dung from a sea bird or from a bat.
* 1982:' "grazes on bat excrement, delicately referred to as ‘bat '''guano ’ in this week's Nature." ''—physics!tpkq, net.games.rogue
* 1995:' "The great white bat has great white '''guano !" ''—
As nouns the difference between apatite and guano
is that apatite is while guano is guano (dung from a sea bird or from a bat).apatite
English
(wikipedia apatite)Noun
(en noun)- We had prepared, by precipitation methods, finely divided crystalline apatites' that were similar in crystal size and x-ray diffraction profile to bone ' apatite .