Seeking Locations and Current Pricing for Purchasing Carbite/Carbide

Question

Exactly. Is carbit even available for purchase today?

If so, where? and how much?

Thanks in advance for the answer.

Ps: I know this has nothing to do with electronics, but maybe someone here can help me.

ducker1 · Answer

In my neighborhood (in Podkarpacie) you can buy it in chemical stores

eit · Answer

you can buy it on alledrogo - to remove moles and voles. In addition, in better chemical and industrial stores. Also look in supermarkets like Castorama, OBI, etc

Volfram · Answer

Ha, that's right, for alledrogo carbit or nuggets!
It is not allowed to trade there. You can only buy special carbit containers or a lamp :D

I'm from Podkarpacie, in Rzeszów, carbit castroam? I've never seen it.

Ducker 1: Could you give me the addresses of chemical shops? I've never been to one. What are the prices of carbit?

Thank you in advance for your answer.

Ps: Does anyone else have a carbit lamp at home? How does it light up? I'm asking out of pure curiosity.

eit · Answer

Look in stores, gardening and agricultural wholesalers - to scare away moles. The carbit lamp is like a normal burner - you put carbide and water into the container. The acetylene produced burns in the form of a small flame in a tiny burner - like a candle flame. In addition, a reflector, such as in lamps, and lights up. You adjust the brightness by increasing or decreasing the acetylene flow to the burner.

Ps. carbide goes on to buy on alledrogo, only that the sellers do not write that it is only anti-mole carbide, etc. Possibly talk to the sellers of art. gardening, etc. They certainly still have. By the way, another sick idea of alledrogo with a ban on carbide.

tronics · Answer

Carbide or CaC2 (calcium carbide) in combination with water produces acetylene ... by the way, a flammable and highly explosive gas. Maybe that's why it's harder to find?
For similar reasons, it is rather impossible to get CLEAN
NH4NO3 or NA2NO3 - both substances can be used to produce explosives.
Theoretically, carbide can be made (like quicklime) in 'home conditions'. - a non-ecological boiler powered by coke/hard coal

korczomax1 · Answer

Carbit is sold in the gardening store all the time I buy because it is for moles but I prefer to shoot it

pawelkryczka · Answer

Warszawa Rzeczna Street, it's in the Praga district

Artur k. · Answer

Moved from: Other What to buy?

bestia1978 · Answer

I once saw carbide in a drugstore! It was in liter cans for PLN 10 per can.

henrykS · Answer

In wholesalers with welding materials, at least those that they want to play it. I can easily buy it in Jelenia Góra, they pack it in plastic bags of 5 and 10 kg. Until recently, a kg cost PLN 6.

hero1521 · Answer

Hello! I have a question, is it possible to buy carbide in the vicinity of Chojnice or in Chojnice itself? If so, how much and where?

Pi-Vo · Answer

Ask at garden stores if you have one in your area.

hero1521 · Answer

Hello!
I have a question, is it possible to buy carbide in the vicinity of Chojnice or in Chojnice itself? If so, how much and where?

Moderated By Jasiek690:
I merged the topics.

maromarol · Answer

so-called Potassium satate is the best because it is not hygroscopic, i.e. it does not absorb moisture, in hypermarkets and garden stores you can buy it in packages as a fertilizer, but you have to look if there are any additives, I recently saw 1 kg of pure saltpeter in Auchan as a fertilizer for flowers.
Ps: for the curious, I recommend testing potassium permanganate with sulfur or small magnesium filings with saltpeter (magnesium combustion is then many times faster and very effective)

kamkam666 · Answer

I have for sale carbide about 100kg, the possibility of buying not large quantities. phone 602817472

qwerty888 · Answer

Hello! I have 50 kg of carbide. I will sell the whole thing for PLN 200 604511849

submariner · Answer

when doing experiments with potassium permanganate and especially some metal powders, you have to remember that storing such mixtures, especially with traces of moisture, leads to self-ignition - KMnO4 is sensitive to moisture and decomposes on contact with some metals.

orzechowiec13 · Answer

Hello You can buy carbide at: They don't make problems like Allegro. Very good thing to repel moles.

michube · Answer

On a different note - how does carbide repel moles? Is it mining the area or what?

kuba989898 · Answer

@michube

Under the influence of moisture, carbide decomposes with the release of acetylene, and if you put carbide into a tunnel dug in the ground (it is damp), you will change the composition of the atmosphere, and if a mole is to suffocate, it will prefer to move.

użytkownik8302 · Answer

You can finally say I come to the garden store and what I say

michube · Answer

How is what? Good morning. Half a kilo of carbide, please. How much do I pay? Thank you. Goodbye.

grzegorz890 · Answer

Look in companies that use acetylene generators. They have to buy carbide somewhere, don't they? And for a bottle they will certainly give up a few kilos

Gronczo · Answer

Type in Google: carbide shop for less than PLN 10 you will get 0.5 kg of carbide

rusek9999 · Answer

and does carbit / carbide have to be mixed with anything other than water because I, for example, deal with the production of firecrackers (just starting) and I just heard about the carbit

ducker1 · Answer

rusek9999 so take care of the production of plum jam and not firecrackers, at least you won't hurt yourself, if you knew it at least a little, didn't sleep during chemistry lessons in middle school and/or read the whole topic, you'd know how it works.

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and does carbit / carbide have to be mixed with something besides water

What do you want to mix it for?
You can mix carbide, for example, with dough and make dumplings, or with whatever else you want. but you need to know what it will result in

Pi-Vo · Answer

They used to say that moonshine was fortified with carbide because it absorbs water and leaves more C2H5OH, but I don't think you need a special imagination to guess how it tasted and smelled. Carbide is not suitable for fireworks, its explosiveness consists in the fact that in reaction with water, flammable gas acetylene is produced, which in certain proportions with oxygen gives a more explosive mixture than methane. It was also used for welding (carbide acetylene generators). I'm not sure but I think bottled acetylene is used now.

jankolo · Answer

Carbide was used in mining lamps.

ducker1 · Answer

well, I wouldn't be entirely sure, carbide lamps are flame lamps, such as a kerosene lamp, but in a carbide lamp, the fuel is not kerosene, but acetylene, and now imagine a miner with an open fire in the mine ... But surely such lamps were used on the railway

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