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Chemical Properties: Grey or black solid with a garlic-like odour. It is very lively, at the appropriate temperature can reaction with a lot of gas, solution. Touch with water drastic decompound and bring acetylene and calcium hydroxide, disengaging large numbers of heat. Has drastic chemical reaction with chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulfur, phosphorus, alcohol etc. At high temperature.
Packing and transportation: Packaged in 50kg iron drums, 100kgiron drums, 200kg iron drums. Packing with wall thickness more than 1 mm iron barrel, has 100 kg or 50 kg. The iron barrel's side use paint to mark "calcium carbide avoidance fire and water". Calcium carbide should store at storehouse in dry, cool and ventilated, isolation with the combustible and strong acid product. The best is the storehouse store up calcium carbide only. Be strictly forbid get in touch with water and damp. Put out the acetylene of barrel inner before enter the storehouse. 6-12 months be suitable for store up.
Use:
(1) Reacting with water to bring about ethine.
(2) Reacting with nitrogen to product lime nitrogen.
(3) The desulfurizer in steel industry.
