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n. (context inorganic compound English) The compound CaCN2 produced by reacting calcium carbide with nitrogen; it is used as a fertilizer
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Calcium cyanamide is the inorganic compound with the formula CaCN. This calcium derivative of cyanamide (CN) is used as fertilizer, first synthesized in 1898 by Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro ( Frank-Caro process). It is commercially known as nitrolime.
Usage examples of "calcium cyanamide".
Almost every day they came back to the trailer park with samples of new materials: sulphuric acid, sorel cements for the vault mortar, ammonium nitrate explosives, a calcium cyanamide rover fuel, polysulfide rubber, silicon-based hyperacids, emulsifying agents, a selection of test tubes holding trace elements extracted from the salts.
Almost every day they came back to the trailer park with samples of new materials: sulphuric acid, sorel cements for the vault mortar, ammonium nitrate explosives, a calcium cyanamide rover fuel, polysulfide rubber, silicon-based hyperacids, emulsifying agents, a selection of test tubes holding trace elements extracted from the salts, and, most recently, clear glass.