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Posted by Franz [4.156.234.179] on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 20:57:50 :
In Reply to: Acetlylene posted by gmharris [71.105.178.157] on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 at 18:52:36 :
Your welding supplier is a thief and a liar.
Yes, a carbide plant blew up and will not be back in production any time soon if at all.
No this does not mean a shortage of acetylene gas since most is currently made using a process I G Farbin, now known as BASF due to some inconvenient history, developed in the 1920s to refine acetylene from natural gas.
Production from natural gas is far less costly.