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calcium nitrate

noun

  1. a white, deliquescent solid, Ca(NO 3 ) 2 , used chiefly in the manufacture of fertilizers, fireworks, matches, and explosives.


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He dumps nine gallons of water, and then measures out just a few tablespoons of calcium nitrate, magnesium sulfate and a blended fertilizer containing nitrogen, potash and phosphate.

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It absorbs the fumes generated from traffic and converts them first into nitric acid and then into calcium nitrate, which is harmless.

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For example, Professor MacDougal, by treating the germ-cells of the evening primrose with various solutions, such as sugar, zinc sulphate and calcium nitrate, has apparently succeeded in producing definite germinal mutations.

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“To see him use molecular gastronomy, to take a strawberry compote and put it into calcium nitrate so that it totally changed the consistency — it opened my mind to an entire world of pastry.â€

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The result is, sir," answered Herzog, meek and cowed under this harrying, "that calcium nitrate is produced, a very excellent fertilizer.

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