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Topic: Historic Calcium Cloride ballast?

Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Subject: Historic Calcium Cloride ballast?
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2012 at 4:08pm

My local salvage yard operator asked me this question. He said that tractors built in the 50's and maybe 60's that had factory installed calicum cloride in the tires, the colour was yellow and he thought non corrosive. He said the when he worked in a tire shop in the 70's the owner had a tub of yellow powder that he added to the calcium cloride before he filled a tractor tire. He thought the he remembered something about the powder being iodine something. I said I'd try to find out. Does anyone know?

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Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2012 at 6:00pm

http://www.wardchem.com/corrosion-control.htm a vendor of CaCl claims to have a corrosion inhibitor for it.

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090166582 tells of patents for reduced corrosion CaCl.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5296167.html another patent lists patents in the topic back to 1935.

http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/4986925.html

Gerald J.

Posted By: Joe(TX)
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2012 at 9:58pm

Calcium Chloride is Calcium Chloride and nothing else. No iodine.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_chloride" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_chloride

Calcium chloride, CaCl₂, is a salt of calcium and chlorine. It behaves as a typical ionic halide, and is solid at room temperature. Common applications include brine for refrigeration plants, ice and dust control on roads, and desiccation. Because of its hygroscopic nature, anhydrous calcium chloride must be kept in tightly-sealed air-tight containers.

Calcium chloride can be produced directly from limestone, but large product of the Solvay process. North American consumption in 2002 was 1,687,000 tons (3.7 billion pounds). A Dow Chemical Company manufacturing facility in Michigan houses about 35% of the total U.S. production capacity for calcium chloride.

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