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• n  a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus

• Enamel and apatite consist of fibres made up of hexagonal crystals in which precisely the same elements (calcium, oxygen, phosphorus) have precisely the same atomic arrangement.
• ON THE MEND Kyoto University doctors have used slivers of titanium coated with a mixture of the mineral apatite and titanium oxide to make stronger repairs to broken bones.

News & Articles

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• Arianne Phosphate Files its Environmental Impact Assessment for the Lac a Paul Project
  Arianne Phosphate Inc. is announcing that its Environmental Impact Assessment for the Lac a Paul apatite mining project was filed with the Ministere du developpement durable, de l'environnement, de la ...
  June 28, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

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• René Lévesque in CBC.ca
  The raw materials will not be transformed in Sept-Îles; [the apatite] will be shipped as is, so there will not be anything that is bound to create some environmental problems,said Lévesque.