evilgecko
November 11th, 2004, 04:42 AM
I was just thinking about how to make acetylene gas. I know that calcium carbide reacts with water to form acetylene gas, but what if you can't obtain it. Make it. I heard somewhere that if you heat calcium oxide (quicklime) with coke (I'm guessing you could replace this with ground up charcoal) it produces calcium carbide. And if you dont have any quicklime, then you could thermally decompose calcium carbonate (limestone) by heating it strongly with a bit of charcoal to help it on its way. Could a possible source of calcium carbonate be chalk, or can you buy it in a place like a garden store?. The calcium carbide could then be reacted to form acetylene gas, which could be used from making acetylene bombs to silver acetylene. Only problem is that I've never tried this. Has anyone got some advice on this method? And don't say just get it from a gas welder cause I ain't got one.
Thanks. :cool:
Thanks. :cool: