Magnesium oxide (magnesium oxide production)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product '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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.