Randan, Puy-de-Dôme

Randan is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.

Randan
The chateau in Randan
Coat of arms
Location of Randan
Randan
Randan
Coordinates: 46°01′07″N 3°21′20″E
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentPuy-de-Dôme
ArrondissementRiom
CantonMaringues
IntercommunalityPlaine Limagne
Government
  Mayor (2020–2026) Sandrine Couturat[1]
Area
1
15.65 km2 (6.04 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[2]
1,573
  Density100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
63295 /63310
Elevation298–404 m (978–1,325 ft)
(avg. 410 m or 1,350 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The place gives its name to Randanite, a soluble silica that occurs as fine earth near Randan and near Algiers.[3] In the late 19th century the official composition of the dynamite at the Poudrerie nationale de Vonges and other French powder works was 75% nitroglycerin, 20.8% randanite, 3.8% Vierzon silica and 0.4% magnesium carbonate.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Sandrine Couturat élue maire de Randan (Puy-de-Dôme)" [Sandrine Couturat elected mayor of Randan, Puy-de-Dôme]. La Montagne (in French). 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. "Definitions of randanite", Drictionry.net, retrieved 2017-09-01
  4. Figuier, Louis (1891), Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes (in French), 2 des Suppléments, pp. 81-152)., Furne, Jouvet et Cie, retrieved 2017-09-01


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