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CALCIUM CARBIDE [2 records]

Record 1 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
DEF

A crystalline compound CaC2 that is colorless when pure but usu. varying from dark gray to brown made commercially by heating lime and carbon together in an electric furnace and used for the generation of acetylene and for making calcium cyanamide.

OBS

Multiple uses of calcium carbide: photography, medicine, dehydrating agent, food preservative, road treatment, freezing mixtures, sizing compounds, wood preservative, fire retardant.

OBS

calcium carbide: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

Le carbure de calcium CaC2 est un produit industriel provenant de l'action du carbone sur la chaux au four électrique. C'est un solide incolore quand il est pur, que l'eau décompose pour donner de l'acétylène [...]

OBS

Util. : Fabrication de l'acétylène, de la cyanamide calcique, d'engrais, de noir de carbone, agent déshydratant, métallurgie.

OBS

carbure de calcium : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
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Record 2 2001-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
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