How to Use calcium chloride in a Sentence

calcium chloride

noun

• The calcium chloride leaches out and attacks the ice in a line that makes a channel.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• My first job is to squirt a solution of calcium chloride into the tube.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2016
• 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
• 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
• Some people spray leaves with a dilute calcium chloride solution or even leaves and fruit with milk!
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Tomatoes packed without salt or calcium chloride tasted and felt more like fresh tomatoes.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• These American-grown tomatoes, packed in juice, include calcium chloride, citric acid and salt.
  — Sara Bonisteel, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2020
• Orange-y calcium chloride was just outside the triangle.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• 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
• Prepare your calcium bath by dissolving the calcium chloride into the water.
  — Science & Food, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some have added calcium chloride to promote tenderness, others have several other additives as well.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Other chemical cousins, such as calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium chloride, are also used.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Squirt the sodium alginate solution into the calcium chloride solution.
  — Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Jul 2024