How to Use Magnesium Chloride

Use magnesium chloride as a healthy supplement. This mineral affects the muscular and nerve systems. It is a necessity for over 300 of the enzymes in the body. It is important to our cells and the life of cells. Low magnesium levels causes the increase of free radical generation which can lead to fatal diseases such as cancer. It inhibits carcinogenesis that can strangle the life right out healthy cells.  Without healthy cells, we're inviting diseases.

Use magnesium chloride to control dust and controlling erosion. Both road departments and private manufacturers use either the liquid form or the powered magnesium chloride to help control the dust and erosion. It absorbs moisture in the air, therefore controlling the dust particles that get into the air. It's used in indoor arenas, such as for horse riding. It is applied to sand or whatever materials used for flooring.

Use magnesium chloride as a de-icer. Tons of highway departments use the liquid form. Magnesium chloride is less toxic to trees and plants surrounding the highways and airports. It will not corrode concrete and steel like sodium chloride. When sprayed on the dry roads before precipitation, keeps ice and snow from sticking to the pavement. This provides for much safer driving conditions.  It is also sold in a crystal form for home use to be used after precipitation. The spray form, on the other hand, is used on the roads before precipitation.

Make tofu by using magnesium chloride. This first began in China by taking the beans and drying, mashing, and then boiling them. Then by adding magnesium chloride in the form of sea salt, it forms curds, thus tofu is made.This process is still being done but not the manufacturers who make tofu on a much larger scale. In China, magnesium chloride is called lushi and in Japan, it's called nigari. This means bitter. It's a white powder made from seawater when the sodium chloride is removed and the water has evaporated.
 

Combine materials such as sand or crushed stones with magnesium chloride, zinc oxide, zinc chloride and you will have what is called Sorel cement. A Frenchman named Stanislas Sorel was the first to make it. It withstands ten thousand to twelve thousand of pressure per square inch. It's used to make grindstones and tiles and artificial ivory such as pool balls.