calcium carbide

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   a grey salt of calcium (CaC) used in making acetylene

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Questions about calcium carbide

What does calcium carbide mean?

calcium carbide means "a grey salt of calcium (CaC) used in making acetylene".

Is calcium carbide a common word?

calcium carbide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.