Editing Calcium peroxide (section)

==Applications==
It is mainly used as an oxidant to enhance the extraction of precious metals from their ores. In its second main application, it is used as a [[food additive]] under the [[E number]] E930 it is used as [[flour bleaching agent]] and [[improving agent]].<ref name = Ullmann/>

In agriculture it is used in the presowing treatments of [[rice]] seed. Also, calcium peroxide has found use in [[aquaculture]] to oxygenate and disinfect water. In the ecological restoration industry it is used in the treatment of soils. Calcium peroxide is used in a similar manner to [[magnesium peroxide]] for environmental restoration programs. It is used to restore soil and groundwater contaminated with petroleum by the process of enhanced in-situ [[bioremediation]]. It is a minor component of some dentifrices. 

It is also used for curing {{chem name|polythioether}} polymers by oxidising terminal thiol groups to disulphide bridges.{{cn|date=July 2022}}