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Pidgeon process, a Common card
The Pidgeon process is a practical method for smelting magnesium.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,600
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The most common method involves the raw material, dolomite, being fed into an externally heated reduction tank and then thermally reduced to metallic magnesium using 75% ferrosilicon as a reducing agent in a vacuum.
- Overall the processes in magnesium smelting via the Pidgeon process involve dolomite calcination, grinding and pelleting, and vacuum thermal reduction.
- Besides the Pidgeon process, electrolysis of magnesium chloride for commercial production of magnesium is also used, especially for magnesite ores, which at one point in time accounted for 75% of the world's magnesium production.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pidgeon process article was read about 7,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pidgeon process (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Warut Roonguthai, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

