The Magnesium Ingot is a fairly strong, silvery-white, light-weight metal.
Usage:
- The high temperature at which magnesium burns makes it a useful tool for starting emergency fires during outdoor recreation. Other related uses include flashlight photography, flares, pyrotechnics and fireworks sparklers.
- To photoengrave plates in the printing industry.
- In the form of turnings or ribbons, to prepare Grignard reagents, which are useful in organic synthesis.
- As an additive agent in conventional propellants and the production of nodular graphite in cast iron.
- As a reducing agent for the production of uranium and other metals from their salts.
- As a sacrificial (galvanic) anode to protect underground tanks, pipelines, buried structures, and water heaters.
Magnesium Ingot
Type | Chemical Composition % | |||||||||
Mg | Fe | Si | Ni | Cu | Al | Cl | Mn | Ti | Impurities | |
more | less | |||||||||
Mg99.96 | 99.96 | 0.004 | 0.004 | 0.0002 | 0.002 | 0.006 | 0.003 | 0.003 | -- | 0.04 |
Mg99.95 | 99.95 | 0.004 | 0.005 | 0.0007 | 0.003 | 0.006 | 0.003 | 0.01 | 0.014 | 0.05 |
Mg99.90 | 99.90 | 0.004 | 0.01 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.02 | 0.005 | 0.03 | -- | 0.10 |
Mg99.80 | 99.80 | 0.005 | 0.03 | 0.002 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.005 | 0.06 | -- | 0.20 |
