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Definition of Calcium chloride

1. Noun. A deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent.

Definition of Calcium chloride

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) The calcium salt of hydrochloric acid, CaCl₂; used as a drying agent and to melt ice on roads. ¹

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Medical Definition of Calcium chloride

1. Calcium chloride (cacl2). A salt that occurs as white, hard fragments or granules. It is used as a calcium replenisher, administered intravenously, has been used as an acid-producing diuretic and urinary acidifier and to control bleeding in such conditions as purpura, intestinal bleeding, and small multiple haemorrhages. It is also a specific antidote for magnesium poisoning, administered intravenously. Chemical name: Calcium chloride (CaCl2) (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcium Chloride

Literary usage of Calcium chloride

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1900)
"That sulphuric acid is preferable to calcium chloride has frequently been shown, since the best fused calcium chloride may contain basic chloride which ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemical Solubilities: Inorganic by Arthur Messinger Comey, Dorothy Anna Hahn (1921)
"calcium chloride hydrazine ... Ppt, (Franzen, Z. anorg. 1908, 60. 288.) calcium chloride hydroxylamine, CaCI;, ... (Antonow,/.с calcium chloride lead oxide, ..."

3. The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay (1904)
"Solubility Curve of calcium chloride Hexahydrate.1— Although calcium chloride forms ... 1 The equilibria between calcium chloride and water have been most ..."

4. The Freezing-point Lowering, Conductivity, and Viscosity of Solutions of by Harry Clary Jones (1913)
"Hj/dration of calcium chloride in the Mixture. In order to compare the hydrates formed by calcium chloride in separate solution with those which it forms in ..."

5. Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis by C. Remigius Fresenius, Samuel William Johnson (1883)
"Solution of calcium chloride must be perfectly neutral, and neither be ... calcium chloride is in its action and application analogous to barium chloride. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Two of the patients died, and in both death was due to exhaustion resulting from the hemolysis, the very process which calcium chloride is used to combat. ..."

7. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"The addition of either potassium chloride or of calcium chloride alone to distilled water or to cane-sugar does not improve it. ..."

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