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calcium cyanamide
Sign in to saveAlso known as nitrolime, calcium carbimide, lime nitrogen
a calcium salt of the cyanamide which is used as plant fertilizer
Chemical data
- Formula
- CCaN2
- Molecular weight
- 80.1 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- calcium azanidylidenemethylideneazanide
- SMILES
- C(=[N-])=[N-].[Ca+2]
- InChIKey
- MYFXBBAEXORJNB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
Calcium cyanamide, also known as Calcium carbondiamide, Calcium cyan-2°-amide or Calcium cyanonitride is the inorganic compound with the formula CaCN2. It is the calcium salt of the cyanamide (CN 2) anion. This chemical is used as fertilizer and is commercially known as nitrolime. It also has herbicidal activity and in the 1950s was marketed as cyanamid. It was first synthesized in 1898 by Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro (Frank–Caro process).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “calcium cyanamide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.