calcium chloride

1. 1.

   a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent

   Broadersalt

Questions about calcium chloride

What does calcium chloride mean?

calcium chloride means "a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent".

Is calcium chloride a common word?

calcium chloride 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.