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On March 21, 2011, an explosion at the Carbide Industries, LLC calcium carbide manufacturing plant in Louisville, Ky., took offline the largest calcium carbide furnace in the Americas. Carbide ...

Acetylene, Coke, and calcium carbide are no longer part of the vocabulary of chemists and chemical engineers working at most modern industrial sites. But in China, these materials, dating back to the ...

Calcium carbide is created by heating a lime and carbon mixture in an arc furnace to a temperature of between 3,632 to 3,812 degrees. Calcium carbonate is a fairly hard substance that reacts violently ...