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    The term calcium phosphate refers to a family of materials and minerals containing calcium ions (Ca2+) together with inorganic phosphate anions. Some...
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    Dicalcium phosphate is the calcium phosphate with the formula CaHPO4 and its dihydrate. The "di" prefix in the common name arises because the formation...
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    Tricalcium phosphate (sometimes abbreviated TCP), more commonly known as Calcium phosphate, is a calcium salt of phosphoric acid with the chemical formula...
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    treating calcium hydroxide with phosphoric acid: Ca(OH)2 + 2 H3PO4 → Ca(H2PO4)2 + 2 H2O Samples of Ca(H2PO4)2 tend to convert to dicalcium phosphate: Ca(H2PO4)2...
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  • Amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) is a glassy solid that is formed from the chemical decomposition of a mixture of dissolved phosphate and calcium salts (e...
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    calcium carbonate, calcium citrate, calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, and calcium phosphate. The absorption of calcium from most food and commonly used...
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  • phosphate and form an insoluble compound. Calcium carbonate Calcium-based phosphate binders, such as calcium carbonate, directly decrease phosphate levels...
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    occurrence of phosphates in biological systems is as the structural material of bone and teeth. These structures are made of crystalline calcium phosphate in the...
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    stones are predominantly composed of calcium oxalate; struvite and calcium phosphate stones are less common. Calcium oxalate stones in children are associated...
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    impure calcium sulfite, which oxidizes on storage to calcium sulfate. In the production of phosphoric acid from phosphate rock, calcium phosphate is treated...
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    Parathyroid hormone (category Hormones of calcium metabolism)
    enhances the uptake of phosphate from the intestine and bones into the blood. In the bone, slightly more calcium than phosphate is released from the breakdown...
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    notably calcium phosphate. It is present in excess and often, much greater excess of solubility of solid calcium phosphate. In addition to calcium, milk...
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    Types of stones include struvite, calcium oxalate, urate, cystine, calcium phosphate, and silicate. Struvite and calcium oxalate stones are by far the most...
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    calcium reabsorption in the nephron. PTH also acts on the proximal convoluted tubule to decrease phosphate reabsorption to lower the serum phosphate....
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    The original acid phosphate, made by Horsford's chemical company, and was a mixture of calcium, magnesium and potassium phosphate salts with a small...
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    nephrocalcinosis is used to describe the deposition of both calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. It may cause acute kidney injury. It is now more commonly used to...
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    by phosphate anions in stoichiometric hydroxyapatite, are occupied by phosphate or hydrogen phosphate, HPO2−4, anions. Preparation of these calcium-deficient...
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    contains in total approximately 1 kg, 99% in the skeleton in the form of calcium phosphate salts. The extracellular fluid (ECF) contains approximately 22 mmol...
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    Calcific tendinitis is a common condition where deposits of calcium phosphate form in a tendon, sometimes causing pain at the affected site. Deposits...
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    changes (the calcium is said to be a second messenger). Calcium is used to make calcium carbonate (found in chalk) and calcium phosphate, two compounds...
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    primarily of calcium phosphate crystals organized into four principal mineral phases, listed here in order of decreasing ratio of phosphate to calcium: whitlockite...
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    pores or the damaged cell wall. Another simple methods involves using calcium phosphate to bind the DNA and then exposing it to cultured cells. The solution...
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    with calcium chloride:[citation needed] CaCl2 + H4P2O7(aq) → Ca2P2O7·2 H2O + HCl. The anhydrous forms can be prepared by heating dicalcium phosphate:[citation...
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    in a two-step process by treating dicalcium phosphate with sodium bisulfate, which precipitates calcium sulfate: CaHPO4 + NaHSO4 → NaH2PO4 + CaSO4 In...
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    important source of phosphates for fertiliser in the latter half of the 19th century. Phosphate rock, which usually contains calcium phosphate, was first used...
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    of calcium lactate, calcium diphosphate, and tricalcium phosphate. The last is also used as a polishing agent in toothpaste and in antacids. Calcium lactobionate...
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    levels of phosphate may rise (called hyperphosphatemia) leading to bone problems. Calcium acetate binds phosphate in the diet to lower blood phosphate levels...
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    Microcalcifications in the breast are made up of calcium phosphate or calcium oxalate. When consisting of calcium phosphate, they are usually dystrophic calcifications...
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    apples. Calcium carbonate is used therapeutically as phosphate binder in patients on maintenance haemodialysis. It is the most common form of phosphate binder...
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    phosphate sources to give a solid precipitate of calcium phosphate: 3 CaCl2 + 2 PO3−4 → Ca3(PO4)2 + 6 Cl− Calcium chloride has a very high enthalpy change of...
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