99.9 Magnesium ingot

This is the 99.9 type magnesium ingot.The Magnesium Ingot is a fairly strong, silvery-white, light-weight metal.

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