"USE: The anhydrous form used as a drying and dehydrating agent for
organic liquids and gases (ding?) and in dessicators. (ding?) The
dihydrate and hexihydrate forms are used for antifreeze (in tractor
tires) and refrigerating solutions, in fire extinguishers, etc (don't
ding on the fire extinguisher angle in Hawaii.) to preserve wood, stone,
manuf ice, glues, cements; fireproofing fabrics (beware); automobile
antifreeze mixtures (dated, don't go there); to melt ice and snow (look
to the top of the volcano, my son, there may be ice with the fire there)
as a coagulant in rubber manuf, as size in an admixture with starch
paste; in concrete mixes to give quicker initial set (ding? although
don't buy concrete from people who use it, high halide concrete is
inferior in finished properties to the kind that does it the slow way)
freezeproofing of coal and ores (not a chance in hell) dust control on
unpaved roads, sizing and finishing cotton fabrics, as brine for filling
inflatable tires on tractors to increase traction (and to give freezing
protection)
> If I was raising cellery I would have it for fertilizer, heart rot of
> cellery is a Ca++ deffiency.
I didn't know that.
Is this a problem in Hawaii?
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The connection between carbonate alkalinity, calcium, and fin deformities
in rainbowfish is very interesting. One of the top ten "most vexing and
intriguing" things that I've come across in the aquarium world in the last
year.
Craig