| Industrial Applications | Functions |
Highway maintenance | | - Moisture absorbed from the air prevents dust formation
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Chemical manufacture | - Production of calcium salts
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Cement | | - volatalize alkali, source of chlorides
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Construction | - Cold-weather concrete additive
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| - Solidifies loose, sandy soils when mixed with sodium silicate
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| - Lowers freezing temperature of water put in tires for better traction
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Drying air and gases | | - Removes moisture by hygroscopicity
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Highway construction | - Shoulder and base stabilization
| - Retains moisture which improves compaction of soil
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Automotive Aluminum | | - Removes Fluorides, Phosphates, Heavy Metals and oily wastes
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Mining | - Dustproofing and freeze-resisting ore and coal
| - Retains moisture; lowers freezing point of water
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Paper manufacture | - Increases web strength of corrugating media
| - Provides artificial water hardness for better drainage
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| - Works with fatty acid soaps on recycled paper
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| - Provides artificial water hardness that helps set paper dyes
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Petroleum | - Additive to oil well completion fluids
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- Cementing finished oil wells
| - Accelerates set of cement
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- Drying petroleum fractions
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