How To Use Calcium oxide In A Sentence
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When calcium carbonate is heated it decomposes into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
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In early times, people roasted limestone to obtain lime (calcium oxide), a base.
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For a furnace with basic refractories, which includes most carbon steel-producing furnaces, the usual slag formers are calcium oxide (CaO, in the form of burnt lime) and magnesium oxide (MgO, in the form of dolomite and magnesite).
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Another very unusual feature of these glasses is that they contain very low calcium oxide levels-c. 1 %.
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Although you hear of people using either calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide for this purpose under the name "lime", the intended lime for disease epidemics, sanitizing latrines, and similar applications where large quantities of a low-cost disinfectant is needed is actually a third different lime.
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In its pure form, calcium oxide occurs as white crystals, white or gray lumps, or a white granular powder.
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Calcium oxide, more commonly known as lime or quicklime, has been studied by scholars as far back as the pre-Christian era.
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This was a 19th century method of lighting the stage by sooting a gal torch at a block of lime calcium oxide.
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One way to remove unwanted gases is to pass them through a solution of calcium oxide in the smokestack.
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If directed against some infusible substance like ordinary lime (calcium oxide), the heat is so intense that the lime becomes incandescent and glows with a brilliant light.
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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A chemical reaction takes place between sodium, potassium and magnesium chlorides from salt with calcium oxides and hydroxide from soil to form calcium chloride.
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When heated, it decomposes into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide gas.
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I recall the day he chucked a lump of calcium oxide into the open-air swimming pool.
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Reacting the calcium oxide with water (H2O) yields calcium hydroxide (Ca (OH) 2) which Rolly calls "Builder's Lime" and is more descriptively referred to as either "slaked" lime (think of slaking your thirst) or hydrated lime.
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When those two substances are mixed together the hydrogen of the water leaves its original partner, oxygen, and the carbon of the calcium carbide leaves the calcium, uniting together to form that particular compound of hydrogen and carbon, or hydrocarbon, which is known as acetylene, whose formula is C_2H_2; while the residual calcium and oxygen join together to produce calcium oxide or lime, CaO.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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Another very unusual feature of these glasses is that they contain very low calcium oxide levels-c. 1 %.
