Chemical applications of calcium carbide have been the focus of recent research, advancing the idea of diverse acetylene chemistry on the basis of carbide technology. Using a proposed approach, cheap ...

Roboticists at Imperial College London and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology have developed a new type of glider that swiftly jumps from sea to air like a flying fish ...

Calcium acetylide was discovered more than 150 years ago. It is a yellowish-white, beige, or grey solid, a compound of calcium and carbon. Calcium acetylide is currently used to produce gaseous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last few decades, researchers have focused their attention on very large molecules and molecular systems. Scientists from all over the world study proteomics, genomics, construct complex ...