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quicklime

[ UK /kwˈɪkla‍ɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

How To Use quicklime In A Sentence

  • By pressing a button on the bottom, water mixes with quicklime, producing a chemical reaction that heats the coffee.
  • Quicklime is an alkali that operates in this much like the salt of tartar in the other operation; you must not leave the matrass open, because the force of this water doth consist in a volatile. Forty Centuries of Ink
  • People made their own containing milk protein, quicklime and earth pigments, and giving a variety of colours from browns to greens.
  • It contains many smaller vessels fitted to the angles, for holding the nut, leaf, and chunam, which is quicklime made from calcined shells; with places for the instruments (kachip) employed in cutting the first, and spatulas for spreading the last. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • Hydrated slaked lime is slaked quicklime that has reacted with water to form calcium hydroxide.
  • Studies at the Getty Conservation Institute on high-reactivity quicklime have identified the parameters for developing high-quality slaked lime putty to be used in the comparative evaluations.
  • Some contractors rework soft spots in the subgrade material, mixing quicklime (hydrated lime) or fly ash into the material to help dry it out or bind it together.
  • We have two manufacturing plants which produce high calcium quicklime and hydrated lime products.
  • This last effect does likewise proceed from the defacing liquor; for because upon the digestion of quicklime and orpin, it is a thing impossible for some of the particles will exalt, stop the vessel as close as you will; the air impregnated with these little bodies does mix with, and alter the inks, insomuch that the visible ink does thereby become the less black, and the invisible ink does also acquire a little blackness. Forty Centuries of Ink
  • In the laboratory higher concentration ethanol, with less water, can be produced by refluxing the rectified spirit with quicklime and then distilling the alcohol mixture.
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