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Aragonite vs Laterite - What's the difference?

aragonite | laterite |

As nouns the difference between aragonite and laterite

is that aragonite is a saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO3; it is dimorphous with calcite while laterite is a red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.

aragonite

English

(wikipedia aragonite)

Noun

  • (mineral) A saline evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula Ca]]C[[oxygen, O3; it is dimorphous with calcite.

    • Derived terms

    * aragonitic

    References

    laterite

    English

    (wikipedia laterite)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 38:
    • Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite .

    Synonyms

    * murram

    Anagrams

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