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Potassium is manufactured in small quantities by reducing potassium fluoride with calcium carbide, the Greisheim process.

W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, VCH, 1989

2
KF
  +  
CaC2
         
2
K
  +  
CaF2
  +  
2
C
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Potassium fluoride     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
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Calcium fluoride     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Carbon     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Industrial Process: Inorganic
Redox
Reduction: Of Substrate By Reagent

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