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carbonates

n. (plural of carbonate English)

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They exhibit the carbonates, magnetites and PAHs seen in ALH 84001, but no movement or metabolic action.

A hotter surface would vaporize still more carbonates into CO2, and there would be the possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect to very high temperatures.

It's the same stuff as the shell, carbonates, but there's an organic component as well.