Endive is also a common name for some types of chicory (Cichorium intybus). There are two main varieties of cultivated endive: 1  Curly endive, or frisee (frisÃ©e var). 2  Crispum this type has, narrow, green curly outer.  leaves
Calcite is more stable and common than aragonite under the chemistry of our modern seas.) Hardness 3 (down to 2. but also the ease with which it forms. in the form of marble.5 to 4. Calcite forms in a range of settings from hot springs and underground caverns to growing coral reefs and seashells.
Nacre differs from fibrous aragonite â a brittle mineral of the same form â in that the growth in the c-axis (i.e., approximately perpendicular to the shell, in nacre) is slow in nacre, and fast in fibrous aragonite.