Cyanamid

Examples

• Practically every civilized country in the world, except the United States, had one or more cyanamid factories in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The fertilizer manufacturers mix the cyanamid with other ingredients to make a balanced plant food and so ship it to farmers for feeding their crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Germany, at the beginning of the war, produced about 30,000 tons of cyanamid; in 1916 she was making 600,000 tons a year. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At the cyanamid plant at Niagara Falls, in Canada, there are seven of these great carbide furnaces, each about fifteen feet long and half as wide and one-third as deep. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This discovery is the basis of the Cyanamid Atmospheric Nitrogen industry or the making of fertilizer from the nitrogen in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For it is also true that this remarkable compound, cyanamid, which is a food for plants, can be decomposed by high-steam pressure into the purest ammonia gas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cyanamid ammonia gas is especially valuable for this purpose on account of its high degree of purity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The cyanamid plant at Niagara Falls, Ontario, which was established in 1909, with a capacity of 10,000 tons, had a capacity of 64,000 tons per annum in 1916. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Roxanne