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Calcium carbide   /kˈælsiəm kˈɑrbˌaɪd/   Listen
Calcium carbide

noun
1.
A grey salt of calcium (CaC) used in making acetylene.





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... Calcium carbide, by means of which acetylene gas is obtained as a product from water, becomes in this view stored power. The marvellously cheap "water-gas" which is made through a jet of steam impinging upon incandescent carbons or upon other suitable glowing hot materials will, no doubt, for a long time command ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland


Words linked to "Calcium carbide" :   carbide, binary compound


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