Carboxylic acids and related compounds
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What is the practical use of magnesium ethanoate?
The common name for magnesium ethanoate is magnesium acetate. If you use this common name as a search term in a Internet search engine such as Google you will find that this salt is used as a deicer for roads instead of common salt. It is less corrosive.
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updated: 14 November 2003
