How to Use calcium chloride in a Sentence
calcium chloride
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The calcium chloride leaches out and attacks the ice in a line that makes a channel.
—Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
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The snow team uses a salt and calcium chloride mixture to create a slushy mix on the roads for safer driving.
—Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 22 Dec. 2022
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If ice has already built up, use calcium chloride or urea to melt the dam, not rock salt, experts say.
—Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2021
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My first job is to squirt a solution of calcium chloride into the tube.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
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Fill a couple of cloth bags (roughly the size of a grocery bag) with calcium chloride and hang them from the ceiling to absorb moisture.
—Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018
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Portage’s large dump trucks will first drop straight white road salt, which melts the ice, and then immediately follow with a spray of calcium chloride which keeps the road warm and binds the salt to it.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
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Some people spray leaves with a dilute calcium chloride solution or even leaves and fruit with milk!
—oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
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Florida’s Turnpike is down to one southbound lane near Consulate Drive as crews clean a calcium chloride spill.
—Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
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Tomatoes packed without salt or calcium chloride tasted and felt more like fresh tomatoes.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
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Barrels of calcium chloride fell off a semi-truck when the driver suddenly stopped for slowing traffic about 8:10 a.m., Montes said.
—Krista Torralva, OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 Apr. 2018
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By first placing the powdery moon dust into a hot batch of molten calcium chloride salt, then running an electrical current through the mixture, the researchers can let chemistry and physics do the heavy lifting.
—Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2020
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These American-grown tomatoes, packed in juice, include calcium chloride, citric acid and salt.
—Sara Bonisteel, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
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Orange-y calcium chloride was just outside the triangle.
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 July 2019
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If water is trapped uphill of the icicles, a roof rake and nylon stockings stuffed with a calcium chloride ice melt product can help remove the ice dam, according to a tip sheet from the Travelers insurance company.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
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Prepare your calcium bath by dissolving the calcium chloride into the water.
—Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2013
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Assistant Highway Superintendent Darren Godby said seven big dump trucks will plow then drop a succession of salt and calcium chloride, while three to four miniature dump trucks will plow and drop salt.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
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But beet juice can upset the balance of nutrients in wetlands while the other salt alternatives like magnesium chloride and calcium chloride can also cause a bevy of problems, Relyea says.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2022
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Most road salts are either sodium chloride (rock salt) or sometimes a concentrated solution of calcium chloride in colder weather.
—Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
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Some have added calcium chloride to promote tenderness, others have several other additives as well.
—Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
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Bentonite clay, which comes from volcanic ash, and other chemical formulas, like calcium chloride, also end up in similar places as silica gel packets, for the same purpose: to keep water away from products that really shouldn’t get damp.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2021
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One key step involved swapping out the silica gel for a liquid desiccant—calcium chloride solution—which is pumped between dedicated absorber and desorber units.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023
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Other chemical cousins, such as calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium chloride, are also used.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2021
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With hygroscopic seeding, water-drawing particles—often some variation of salt, such as calcium chloride—are released from planes flying at low altitudes.
—Ian Graber-Stiehl, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
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Squirt the sodium alginate solution into the calcium chloride solution.
—Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
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To minimize the risk of ice melts, look for pet-friendly varieties, which typically contain urea as a substitute for harmful chemicals, such as sodium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium chloride, ethylene glycol, and magnesium chloride.
—Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Nov. 2021
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