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ArticleScientific reports2026

Revisiting the inorganic component of bone: beyond the accepted concept of "mineral".

Henry P Schwarcz, Viktória K Kis

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Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Henry P SchwarczSchool of Earth, Environment and Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Viktória K KisHUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Konkoly-Thege Miklós u. 29-33, Budapest, Hungary. kis.viktoria@ek.hun-ren.hu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone is widely believed to be constructed of apatite with a composition close to that of hydroxyapatite. The mineral of bone is a made up of polycrystalline 5 nm-thick plates of a monoclinic crystal with a composition like that of apatite but differing from that mineral in most significant respects. Although it is a well-defined crystalline species with diagnostic shape, size, composition range and symmetry, it is not a new mineral because it is not known to grow in any known geological environment. It appears to be a different crystalline phase from apatite.

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ApatiteDefinition of mineralsInfra-red spectrometryTransmission electron microscopyX-ray diffraction

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PMID42706301
PMCPMC13550576

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