Magnesium Carbide

The flammability and explosive hazard of ferrosilicon powder is increased substantially during grinding in a vibratory mill [1], Explosion hazards from air-hydrogen,—acetylene, or—propane mixtures formed during preparation of ferrosilicon containing alkaline earth additives are attributed to contact of barium or magnesium carbide or silicide additive with atmospheric moisture [2],... 

However, these compounds, or, more properly, those species with the same Mg C ratios and resulting stoichiometries are not fanciful. They are two of the best known magnesium carbides and more often written in an ionic dialect, as Mg ( 2) and (Mg +) i.e. they are the magnesium salts of totally deprotonated acetylene and... 

Arsenic Tricarbide, AsCs, is formed 3 as a brown amorphous precipitate when a solution of arsenic trichloride reacts with the double compound of magnesium carbide and iodide 4... 

Magnesium bromide ((MgBr2)2) Magnesium bromide, ion (MgBr2 ) Magnesium carbide (MgC2>... 

The structure of magnesium carbide, MgC2, is of the NaCl type, elongated along one axis, (a) Explain how this elongation arises, (b) What do you infer from the fact that there is no similar elongation in NaCN which also crystallizes with a NaCl lattice ... 

Small perdeuteroalkynes can be obtained in high purity by adding D2O to carbides such as magnesium carbide (equation 102). 

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