Calcium carbide, also known as calcium acetylide, is a chemical compound with the chemical formula of CaC2. Its main use industrially is in the production...

A Carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2)...

transition metal carbides. Examples include calcium carbide (CaC2), silicon carbide (SiC), tungsten carbide (WC; often called, simply, carbide when referring...

by hydrolysis (reaction with water) of calcium carbide: CaC2 + 2 H2O → Ca(OH)2 + C2H2 1 kg of calcium carbide combines with 562.5 g of water to release...

overcoming problems with the use of calcium carbide and clarified that at around 1,100 °C not calcium cyanide but calcium cyanamide is formed in the reaction...

the Enemy Act of 1917, and the Prest-O-Lite company, manufacturer of calcium carbide in Indianapolis. In 1920, the company set up a chemicals division which...

the Union Calcium Carbide Company which he reformulated as Union Carbide in 1904. He was CEO and President, and the board chair of Union Carbide until 1933...

buoyant canisters of calcium carbide and calcium phosphide as naval flares lasting up to ten minutes. It is speculated that calcium phosphide—made by boiling...

also called cyanamide process, is the nitrogen fixation reaction of calcium carbide with nitrogen gas in a reactor vessel at about 1,000 °C. The reaction...

strontium carbide polymorph, just as they do for calcium carbide. The stabilized calcium carbide polymorph is triclinic, and the strontium carbide polymorph...

of calcium carbide and silica, and by reducing silica with carbon in an electric furnace. Acheson patented the method for making silicon carbide powder...

are a common impurity of technical calcium carbide. In electrolytic manufacturing of aluminium, aluminium carbide forms as a corrosion product of the...

metals, the compound is a special case of carbide, and may be commonly called such, as in calcium carbide Ca2+C≡C2−. When only one hydrogen atom is replaced...

The alternate name "silver carbide" is rarely used, although the analogous calcium compound CaC2 is called calcium carbide. Silver acetylide is a primary...

and spring steel. Arc furnaces were also used to prepare calcium carbide for use in carbide lamps. The Stassano electric furnace is an arc type furnace...

St, until its present owners moved it to Sumner Ave. in Allentown. Calcium carbide was one of the first products of electric arc furnaces, made economical...

with traps such as mole-catchers, smoke bombs, and poisons such as calcium carbide, which produces acetylene gas to drive moles away. Strychnine was also...

electric lighting reduced demand for calcium carbide and in 1915 Lonza started industrial production of calcium cyanamide which became popular as a cheap...

oxychloride – CfOCl Calcium bromide – CaBr2 Calcium carbide – CaC2 Calcium carbonate (Precipitated Chalk) – CaCO3 Calcium chlorate – Ca(ClO3)2 Calcium chloride –...

pelletizing, and in production of ferro-alloys, silicon-manganese, calcium-carbide and silicon-carbide. Metallurgical coal produces strong, low-density coke when...

government document as being a hazardous chemical storage facility for calcium carbide, sodium nitrate, and potassium nitrate. Safety regulations requiring...

atmospheric nitrogen was combined with calcium carbide (a key product of the young company) to produce calcium cyanamide, a chemical fertilizer. Nitrogenous...

being exposed to ethylene. Calcium carbide is also used in some countries for artificially ripening fruit. When calcium carbide comes in contact with moisture...

This plant is based on Thermal reduction of Potassium Fluoride with Calcium Carbide initially developed by Hoechst A.G., Werk Griesheim, West Germany....

Tingyu; Jing, Pengfei (2014-02-01). "Calcium Sulfite Oxidation and Crystal Growth in the Process of Calcium Carbide Residue to Produce Gypsum". Waste and...

is one step in the conversion of calcium carbide with nitrogen gas. The ratio of calcium cyanide to calcium cyanamide is sensitive to the presence of...

time in India, had adopted external desulphurisation of hot metal by calcium carbide injection process. Subsequently, its steelmaking capacity was enhanced...

bamboo node or tube containing some water to which a little calcium carbide is added. The carbide reacts immediately with the water releasing acetylene gas...

Polish automobile Frank–Caro process, used to produce cyanamide from calcium carbide and nitrogen gas in an electric furnace Linde–Frank–Caro process, another...

were traveling in the express train. The freight train was carrying calcium carbide, but the first two cars were empty. Pardubice is situated on one of...