calcium chloride
Noun
Meaning
a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent
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Cohen, Julius B. Practical Organic Chemistry MacMillan 1930 Anhydrous calcium chloride is used as a desiccant for drying a wide variety of solvents since it is inexpensive and does not react with most nonaqueous solvents.
It was once common for calcium chloride to be used as an admixture to promote rapid set-up of the concrete.
For example, the oral median lethal dose (LD 50 ) for rats for calcium carbonate and calcium chloride are 6.45 citation and 1.4 g/kg, citation respectively.
Pauling, Linus, General Chemistry, 1970 ed., Dover Publications citation This is done in a Downs cell in which the NaCl is mixed with calcium chloride to lower the melting point below 700 °C.
Then it is dissolved in ammonia again, the solution is heated in air until it becomes purple, then it is precipitated with calcium chloride ; the resulting dye was more solid and stable than other purples.
Lithium and sodium are typically isolated through electrolysis from their liquid chlorides, with calcium chloride typically added to lower the melting point of the mixture.