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Corals in the carbide industry

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Title Corals in the carbide industry
 
Creator Kasiviswanathan, K S
 
Subject Coral Reefs
 
Description The carbide industry in India had till very recently depended
for raw material largely on imported petroleum coke.
Nearly a decade ago Industrial Chemicals Ltd., Sankarnagar,
in Tirunelveli District, the pioneer manufacturers of calcium carbide
in the country, started looking for indigenous raw material.
In processing calcium carbide from lime and carbon, they knew
they could very well put local wood charcoal to lime, but the
samples of limestone from all over India tried8 were found far
from adequate to make first-class carbide conforming to the rigid
international standard Ultimately, the corals available in the
seas around Rameswaram, on analysis, were found to conform to
all the requirements as per standard specification to make ' A '
grade calcium carbide.
 
Date 1968
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/5603/1/4.pdf
Kasiviswanathan, K S (1968) Corals in the carbide industry. In: Souvenir: Symposium on Corals and coral reefs 12 - 16 January 1968 Mandapam Camp, 12 - 16 January 1968, Mandapam.