extraction and processing...solutions. Partly dehydrated magnesium chloride can be obtained by the Dow process, in which seawater is mixed in a flocculator with lightly burned reactive dolomite. An insoluble magnesium hydroxide precipitates to the bottom of a settling tank, whence it is pumped as a slurry, filtered, converted to magnesium chloride by reaction with hydrochloric acid, and dried in a series...
structure and propertiesMagnesium hydroxide, Mg(OH) 2, is a white powder produced in large quantities from seawater by the addition of milk of lime (calcium hydroxide). It is the primary raw material in the production of magnesium metal and has been used as a fire-retardant additive. In water it forms a suspension known as milk of magnesia, which has long been used as an antacid and a laxative.
use as laxative...contents of the bowel, stretching the colon and producing a normal stimulus for contraction of the muscle, which leads to defecation. Some commonly used salts are magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts), magnesium hydroxide (milk of magnesia), sodium sulfate (Glauber salt), and potassium sodium tartrate (Rochelle salt or Seidlitz powder).
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