Calcium Carbide By Rawgems Traders

Our offered Calcium Carbide are highly appreciated by our customers for their remarkable quality and price effectiveness. It is gray or black crystalline compound produced from lime and coke. The pure material is colourless, however, pieces of technical-grade calcium carbide are grey or brown. When it is mixed with water, it yields acetylene gas (C2H2), which has been used as an anesthetic and was once used as a source of illumination in minersa lamps. It is also used in the desulfurisation of iron (pig iron, cast iron and steel). It is used as a fuel in steelmaking to extend the scrap ratio to liquid iron, depending on economics.Its main use industrially is in the production of acetylene and calcium cyanamide.Calcium carbide is used as as a powerful deoxidizer at ladle treatment facilities.