CALCIUM CHLORIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcium chloride mean? 

• CALCIUM CHLORIDE (noun)
  The noun CALCIUM CHLORIDE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CALCIUM CHLORIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCIUM CHLORIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("calcium chloride" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Holonyms ("calcium chloride" is a substance of...):

brine; saltwater; seawater (water containing salts)

 Context examples 

Calcium chloride - the electrolyte - is added, and the mix is heated to around 950 degrees Celsius, a temperature that doesn't melt the material.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In medicine, calcium chloride is also used as a 10% solution in injection, for calcium replenishment.

(Calcium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation may be provided by contact with the glass tube or exposure to activators (e.g., ellagic acid, particulate silicates such as diatomaceous earth or kaolin) before addition of the calcium chloride.

(Partial Thromboplastin Time, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The sealer protein solution contains clottable human fibrinogen and bovine aprotinin, a fibrinolysis inhibitor; the thrombin solution contains human thrombin and calcium chloride.

(Fibrin sealant, NCI Thesaurus)