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The main constituents of pearl are _______.
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aragonite and conchiolin
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Pearls are biological products formed within the soft tissue of living shelled mollusks. Chemically and structurally, they consist primarily of calcium carbonate in the form of aragonite platelets bound together by an organic matrix protein called conchiolin.