A single medicine oxalic acid or oxalate compositions, or "magic bullet" and methods of treatment and prevention of warm-blooded animals including humans and pets for vascular diseases, disorders, and calcerous conditions, chemoprevention of vascular diseases, disorders, and calcerous conditions, is provided which includes at least one therapeutically effective form of oxalic acid or oxalate selected from oxalic acid in a free acid, ester, lactone or salt form and oxalate including sodium oxalat...

This invention relates to a method and apparatus for fluidizing particulate material with a dust-laden gas and to a method and apparatus for calcining granular material in which dust-laden products of combustion from a calciner are used to fluidize and preheat the granular material subsequently delivered to the calciner.