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The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.The smallest kidney stones are microscopic crystals; it is possible to analyze stones weighing less than 0.1 mg.
Kidney stones come in virtually any color; but most are yellow to brown.
The shape and size of the stone may tell something about how it was formed.
Most stones are formed and excreted singly.
Hippocrates (470/460 B.C.-380/ 360 B.C.) makes reference to kidney stones in the Hippocratic Oath as follows: "I will not cut persons labouringunder the stone , but will leave this to be done by men who arepractitioners of this work."
Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, lost the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 due wholly or in part from impaired kidney function resulting from kidney stone formation.
To date over 200 components have been found in calculi; however, the most common constituents of kidney stones are:
● Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate (Whewellite); CaC2O4 ● H2O
● Calcium Oxalate Dihydrate (Weddellite); CaC2O4 ● 2H2O
● Magnesium Ammonium Phosphate Hexahydrate (Struvite); MgNH4PO4●2H2O
● Calcium Phosphate, CarbonateForm (Carbonate Apatite); Ca10(PO4●CO3OH)6(OH)2
● Calcium Phosphate, Hydroxyl Form (Hydroxyl Apatite); Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2
● Calcium Hydrogen Phosphate Dihydrate (Brushite); CaHPO4 ● 2H2O
● Uric Acid; C5H4N4O3
● Cystine; (SCH2CH(NH2)

●COOH)2
● Sodium Acid Urate; NaH●C5H2O3N4 ● H2O
● Tricalcium Phosphate (Whitlockite); Ca3(PO4)2
● Ammonium Acid Urate; NH4H●C5H2O3N4 ● H2O
● Magnesium Hydrogen Phosphate Trihydrate (Newberyite); MgHPO4●3H2O.

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