Magnesium oxide (production)

The activity generating the emissions is magnesium oxide production. The reference product is magnesium oxide. Magnesium oxide is a metal. It is white hygroscopic solid mineral, that forms colourless, green or brown crystals. Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal. It is a direct product from caustic magnesium obtained by mining magnesite. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: as refractory material in the steel industry, other forms of magnesium oxide include calcinated material (caustic magnesia), which is used for agriculture, as well as the pulp and paper and the building industry, and fused magnesia. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/4608/documentation.