Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Vaterite (CaCO3) is a mineral a polymorph of calcium carbonate. It was named after the German mineralogist Heinrich Vater. It is also known as mu-calcium carbonate (μ-CaCO3) and has a JCPDS number of 13-192. Vaterite like aragonite is a metastable phase of calcium carbonate at ambient conditions at the surface of the earth. As it is less stable than either calcite or aragonite vaterite has a higher solubility than either of these phases.