The amount of water flowing into the calcium carbide container can be controlled, with more water producing more gas and a bigger flame when the lamp is lit. The lamp would then be worn on a miner’s ...
Though rare on Earth, silicon carbide (SiC) —a compound of silicon and carbon—is common in meteors and stardust. Credit: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...
This “Half-Shift” carbide mining lamp was made by the Baldwin Company of New York City around 1908. Acetylene gas is produced when water from the lamp's upper level encounters the calcium carbide ...
A federal judge ordered Union Carbide Corp. to pay a $200,136 civil penalty for Clean Water Act violations and gave the company six months to get the water pollution control permits required for ...
The use of light to manipulate electronic states of ... The electronic features of graphene/silicon carbide have been well studied experimentally but theoretical investigations are still preliminary.