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FUSED CHLORIDE [3 records]

Record 1 2011-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
Universal entry(ies)
SiCl4
formula, see observation
10026-04-7
CAS number
DEF

Colorless exceedingly mobile, fuming liquid [with a] suffocating odor.... Uses : Smoke screens; manufacture of ethyl silicate and similar compounds; production of silicones; manufacture of high-purity silica and fused silica glass; source of silicon, silica, and hydrogen chloride; laboratory reagent.

OBS

Chemical formula: SiCl2

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
SiCl4
formula, see observation
10026-04-7
CAS number
OBS

Formule chimique : SiCl2

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Geochemistry
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A silver-white malleable toxic bivalent metallic element of the alkaline-earth group that tarnishes rapidly in air, that occurs only in combination especially as barite and witherite, that is made by reduction of barium oxide or by electrolysis of a fused salt(as barium chloride), and that is used in the form of alloys chiefly as a getter in electron tubes.

OBS

barium: term adopted by Environment Canada; used in the list of pollutants measured in the National Air Pollution Surveillance Network (NAPS).

OBS

Also known under the following designations: UN 1399 (DOT); UN 1400 (Barium); UN 1854 (barium alloys, pyrophoric).

OBS

Symbol: Ba

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Géochimie
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

Métal alcalino-terreux blanc argenté, malléable et brûlant facilement quand il est chauffé à l'air.

OBS

[Le baryum] entre dans la composition de certains minéraux : barytine, celsiane, hyalophane, withérite. Numéro atomique 56, nombre de masse 137,34.

OBS

baryum : terme retenu par Environnement Canada; utilisé dans la liste des polluants mesurés par le Réseau national de surveillance de la pollution atmosphérique (RNSPA).

OBS

Symbole : Ba

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
  • Geoquímica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Elemento químico de símbolo Ba, número atómico 56, masa atómica 137.33, configuración electrónica (Xe)6s², con 25 nucleidos, 7 de los cuales son estables.

OBS

Pertenece al grupo de los elementos alcalinotérreos.

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Record 3 2002-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

Displacement feeder. Suitable for slightly-soluble reagents such as alum, fused sodium carbonate, etc., and for the injection of trisodium phosphate into boilers.

CONT

The paper industry experiences explosions [which] occur when paper smelt(mostly fused sodium carbonate with a few percent of sodium sulfide, sodium chloride, and minor ingredients) is quenched in large containers of "green liquor"...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

Pot à déplacement. Convient pour des réactifs peu solubles: alun, carbonate de soude [sic : de sodium] fondu, etc., et pour l'injection de phosphate trisodique dans les chaudières.

Spanish

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