Calcium cyanamide
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Calcium cyanamide is the inorganic compound with the formula CaCN2. This calcium derivative of cyanamide (CN2) is used as fertilizer, first synthesized in 1898 by Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro (Frank-Caro process). It is commercially known as nitrolime.