Topical Questions
These questions are keyed to the major topics in this chapter. Usually a question that is answered at the back of this book is paired with a similar one that is not.
Calcium carbide, CaC2, is manufactured by reducing lime with carbon at high temperature. (The carbide is used in turn to make acetylene, an industrially important organic chemical.)
Is the reaction endothermic or exothermic?
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