Making calcium carbide requires a lot of heat, far more than a simple propane burner can provide. [Hyperspace Pirate] decided to go with an electric arc furnace, ...

The use of calcium carbide for fruit ripening poses serious health hazards and has no place in our food system. The FSSAI's warning should serve as a wake-up call for us to take action and bring ...

KOCHI: The fishermen community has expressed concern over repeated incidents of beaching of dolphin carcasses along Kerala ...

Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Monday launched a crackdown against the illegal use of calcium carbide for mango ripening. According ...

PROF. SODDY is a trifle impetuous: my reference to Hazlitt was not out of place, it seems. If I follow my critic, as only a small heap of solid phosphate of lime will be left of me when I am burnt ...

Billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate will build a 1 million tonne a year PVC plant at Mundra in Gujarat, marking its foray ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Calcium Carbide and Its Commercial Development ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 90 No. 24 (June 1904), p. 455 doi:10.1038 ...