Calcium Oxide

CAS RN: 1305-78-8

Major Uses

For calcium oxide (USEPA/OPP Pesticide Code: 075604) ACTIVE products with label matches. /SRP: Registered for use in the USA but approved pesticide uses may change periodically and so federal, state and local authorities must be consulted for currently approved uses./
In construction applications incl finishing & masons lime; in metallurgy, principally as a flux in steel prodn; kraft paper pulp prodn; ammonia recovery in solvay process for sodium carbonate; treatment of sewage and trade waste; water purification and softening; misc applications
In bricks, plaster, mortar, stucco, building materials; manufacture of steel, aluminum, magnesium, and flotation of non-ferrous ores; manufacture of glass, paper, Na2CO3 (Solvay process), calcium salts and many other industrial chemicals; dehairing hides; clarification of cane and beet sugar juices; in fungicides, insecticides, drilling fluids, lubricants; in water and sewage treatment; in laboratory to absorb carbon dioxide (the combination with NaOH is known as soda-lime ...)
In making chlorinated lime; dehydrating agent
Sulfur dioxide removal from stack gases; in poultry feeds; nutrient and/or dietary supplement food additive
Ground consolidation; pH control (ore/chemical processing: bauxite processing agent
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