To obtain more heat [Illustration: Electric Furnace] open one lamp, and to obtain still more open the other and close switch C.
Wilson, a Canadian engineer, in attempting to make aluminum bronze in an electric furnace, devised an experiment for reducing lime with carbon.
Production of Calcium Carbide in Electric Furnace by Willson.
This substance is formed when coal and lime are heated together in an electric furnace.
It is also manufactured by heating carbon with a small amount of iron (3%) in an electric furnace.
Phosphorus is now manufactured from bone ash or a pure mineral phosphate by heating the phosphate with sand and carbon in an electric furnace.
Besides its use in combining and separating different elements the electric furnace is able to change a single element into its various forms.
He takes a thousand horsepower engine and an electric furnace at several thousand degrees to get carbon into combination with hydrogen while the little green leaf in the sunshine does it quietly without getting hot about it.
As is common with most important inventions, there is a dispute as to the priority of making carbide by an electric furnace; and the wonder is, not that there is a dispute, but that there are so few claimants.
The latter, which is CaC{2}, is made by heating coke and lime together in the intense heat of an electric furnace.
But the question will arise in the reader's mind: Why is coke needed in an electric furnace?
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