Re: Question for Larry Hoover: calcium carbonate

Posted by DSCH on November 3, 2003, at 12:27:54

In reply to Re: Question for Larry Hoover » DSCH, posted by JLx on November 3, 2003, at 12:19:51

> > Is calcium carbonate as bad off as magnesium carbonate?
>
> You mean this line from Eby's site?
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> "On the other hand, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide and magnesium carbonate are totally useless because they are too tightly bound together for the stomach acid to dissociate into ionic form."
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> I don't know. Sounds like a question for Larry. :)
IIRC, magnesium has the capacity for strong mixed bonding as MgO is quite refractory. None of the refractory ceramics I can remember had calcium as the main cation (indeed Ca is something more likely to be in a flux IIRC). But I don't know if this is at all relevant to bioavailabity or not.

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Thanks. I'll check around. » JLx Dinah 10/27/03
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Informative post! Thanks! (nm) » JLx DSCH 11/2/03
JLx, how about calcium? DSCH 11/2/03
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