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unusual facts about magnesium oxide


Dunlop cheese

Salt from the saltpans at Saltcoats was often used in the manufacture of Dunlop cheese and it contained magnesia and Epsom Salts (magnesium sulphate) which gave the cheese a pleasant and distinctive taste; indeed it was debated whether cheese made using cheaper imported mined salt could be called 'Dunlop' cheese.


Friedel's salt

Stanislas Sorel, a French engineer who made a new form of cement from a combination of magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride


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