Ultra-fine CaCO
3 particles were prepared by CO
2 bubbling a into a system consisting of hexaethyleneglycol dodecyl ether/aqueous Ca(OH)
2/cyclohexane. Spherical and monodispersed CaCO
3 particles having 100 and 70Å in diameter were formed in a colorless and a blue translucent regions, respectively in the solubilization system of the aqueou Ca(OH)
2. The size of the particles was independent on the amount of aqueous Ca(OH)
2 and the concentration of surfactants. The obtained particles were a mixtured of calcite and vaterite. The ratio of these components differed in the cololess and the blue translucent ragions. The vaterite was transformed into calcite in any region and the rate constants were in the order of 10
-6 sec
-1.
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