Kinetics of calcination of natural carbonate minerals ScienceDirect
The third decomposition step corresponds to the calcination of the iron oxidecalcium carbonate complex where, actually, calcium carbonate is decomposed (Reaction (9)). The reaction produced an iron oxide calcium oxide (Fe 2 O 3 (CaO) 2) complex that was detected by XRD (Fig. 6 a (d)). Due to the presence of iron oxide, the kinetics ...