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Calcium chloride is a white or slightly yellow solid inorganic compound.
Calcium chloride (chemical formula: CaCl2) is a white or slightly yellow solid inorganic compound, classified as a salt and a typical ionic halide. Due to its high solubility, hygroscopicity, and dehydrating properties, it is widely used in various fields.
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Applications of Magnesium Chloride
It is an important inorganic raw material in the chemical industry, used to produce magnesium products such as magnesium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, and magnesium oxide, and also used as a raw material for antifreeze agents.
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Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound.
Magnesium chloride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula MgCl2 and a molecular weight of 95.211. It appears as colorless flaky crystals, is slightly soluble in acetone, and soluble in water, ethanol, methanol, and pyridine. It is deliquescent and fumes in moist air, and sublimes when heated to white heat in a stream of hydrogen gas.
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Adverse Reactions of Calcium Chloride
Intravenous injection may cause systemic fever; rapid intravenous injection can lead to nausea, vomiting, arrhythmia, and even cardiac arrest. Early symptoms of hypercalcemia may include constipation, drowsiness, persistent headache, loss of appetite, metallic taste in the mouth, and abnormal dry mouth. Late-stage signs include mental confusion, hypertension, photosensitivity of the eyes and skin, and nausea.
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Industrial Uses of Calcium Chloride
Used as a multi-purpose desiccant, such as for drying gases like nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, hydrogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and others.
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Physical properties of calcium chloride
Colorless cubic crystals, white or grayish white, with granular, honeycomb block, spherical, irregular granular, and powdery forms. Slightly toxic, odorless, with a slightly bitter taste.
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