They eat it, they do a poo, and they poo calcite. Yes.

它们吃掉淀粉进行排泄，排出的就是方解。没错。

But theirs were made of the mineral calcite, which also constituted their exoskeletons.

但这些晶体是由方解构，它们的甲壳也是同样的分。

I'm looking for samples of calcite in the cave.

我在山洞里找方解的样本。

As it builds up, so the calcite forms decorations that hang from the ceiling, stalactites.

随着它的积累，方解形悬在洞顶上的装饰物，钟乳。

" The inside looks like a crystal cave because the limestone has leaked calcite into little stalactites, " says Lin, who entered the tomb and used lidar (light detection and ranging) to explore it on the show.

“里面看起来就像一个水晶洞，因为灰岩中的方解小钟乳，”他进入墓室，并在节目中使用激光雷达（光探测和测距）进行探索。

Made of calcite rods, the same stuff that forms limestone, they constituted the earliest visual systems known.

那种眼睛是由形灰岩的同一种材料即方解杆状体形的，是知的最早的视觉系统。

Their calcite exoskeletons made for hardy fossils that would remain intact for hundreds of millions of years to come.

它们的方解甲壳形坚韧的化，在接下来的数亿年都维持完好。

It's a large, echoey grotto, draped in yellow flowstone, calcite deposits that resemble molten wax.

这是一个宽敞的、回声缭绕的岩洞，布满黄色的流，这些碳酸钙沉积物看起来像是熔化的蜡。

The example you're looking at right now is calcite, and when you're seeing double, it's because light with one polarization is getting bent at a different rate than light with the other polarization.

你现在看到的例子是方解，当你看到重影时， 是因为一种偏振的光以不同的速率被弯曲， 而另一种偏振的光则不是。

Between the size of a grain of rice and a small lima bean, a recent discoveries have found calcite and magnetite crystals chips in it or fragments.

大小介于一粒米和一颗小利马豆之间，最近的发现表明其中含有方解和磁铁矿晶体碎片。

Calcite is the more stable of the two and less prone to dissolving over time, so most mollusk shells have a sturdy outer layer of calcite.

方解是两者中更稳定的一种，随着时间的推移不易溶解，因此大多数软体动物的壳都有一层坚固的方解外层。

Plus, they were covered from their rounded heads to their many segmented feet in an exoskeleton made of calcite and chitin.

此外，它们从圆圆的头部到多节的脚部都覆盖着由方解和几丁质构的外骨骼。

The two guys hope to return home this evening laden with glittering corpses, burnt orange ambers and crystalline calcites.

两位朋友希望今晚满载而归，带着闪闪发光的矿、焦橙色的琥珀和晶莹剔透的方解回家。

Using special proteins, mollusks can produce two crystal structures out of CaCO3: calcite and aragonite.

使用特殊的蛋白质，软体动物可以从 CaCO3 中产生两种晶体结构：方解和文。

Little things like these formations, these rock formations, calcium carbon and calcite, that seem to defy gravity.

这些像是岩层、碳酸钙和方解形的构造，看起来好像在违背地心引力。

He dimly recalls the subtle variations in texture, the distinctive calcite deposits that run up the length of the wall, stretching up, up, to a small window in the rock.

他模糊地记得那些细微的质地变化，沿着墙面延伸的特有的方解沉积物，一直向上伸展， 直到岩上的一小扇窗户。