calcium chloride

English

Noun

calcium chloride (uncountable)

2. (inorganic chemistry) The calcium salt of hydrochloric acid, CaCl₂; used as a drying agent and to melt ice on roads.
   • 1885, American Journal of Science, 3rd Series, Volume 30, page 57:

     The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured.

Translations

calcium salt of hydrochloric acid

• Catalan: clorur de calci m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氯化鈣／氯化钙 (zh) (lǜhuàgài)

• Czech: chlorid vápenatý m
• Dutch: calciumchloride (nl)
• Farefare: koloide kalkurgum
• Finnish: kalsiumkloridi
• French: chlorure de calcium (fr)
• German: Calciumchlorid (de), Kalziumchlorid
• Hungarian: kalcium-klorid
• Icelandic: klórkalsíum n
• Italian: cloruro di calcio m
• Japanese: 塩化カルシウム (ja) (えんかカルシウム, enka karushiumu)
• Polish: chlorek wapnia m
• Portuguese: cloreto de cálcio m
• Romanian: clorură de calciu f
• Russian: хлори́д ка́льция m (xloríd kálʹcija)
• Spanish: cloruro de calcio m
• Swedish: kalciumklorid (sv) c