{"id":10082,"date":"2023-04-22T09:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T04:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:44:48","slug":"calcium-carbide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/calcium-carbide\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcium Carbide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Calcium Carbide:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a compound with the chemical formula <strong>CaC2.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>\u2018masala\u2019<\/strong> which is used as a <strong>fruit ripening agent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is manufactured by heating a <strong>lime and carbon mixture<\/strong> to 2000 to 2100\u00b0C (3632 to 3812\u00b0F) in an electric arc furnace.<\/li>\n<li>It has been <strong>prohibited <\/strong>as per the provision in the sub-regulation of Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulation, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>It is used in <strong>mining and metal industries<\/strong> as well as in the production of acetylene gas.<\/li>\n<li>It is a highly reactive compound and releases acetylene gas which is used to artificially ripen fruits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Artificial ripening?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial ripening of fruits is done in a controlled manner to achieve the optimum level of ripening before time which would be then accepted by consumers<\/li>\n<li>It also allows a longer shelf life for these fruits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Mining?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mining refers to the extraction of valuable minerals, ores, and other geological materials from the Earth&#8217;s surface or underground. These materials can include coal, metals, precious stones, oil, and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/science\/artificially-ripened-mangoes-may-be-harmful-for-you-food-regulator-asks-101681996240796.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Artificially ripened mangoes may be harmful to you. Food regulator asks\u2026<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcium Carbide  is also known as \u2018masala\u2019 which is used as a fruit ripening agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}