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Calcium bicarbonate is only stable in solution.

Water protonates carbonate to bicarbonate and the resulting hydroxide ion nucleophilically attacks the CO2 molecule.
[CO3]2–
  +  
CO2
  +  
H2O
  +  
H2O
         
2
[HCO3]–
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Proton transfer: Brønsted reaction
Type 15 Lewis Acid/Base Complexation Chemistry

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