calcium chloride
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The calcium salt of hydrochloric acid, CaCl₂; used as a drying agent and to melt ice on roads.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The gases passed over a hot roll of copper gauze, then through a weighed calcium chloride tube, which absorbed the water, into an azotometer containing a concentrated solution of potassium hydroxide where the nitrogen was measured."