A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
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Examples for "lime"
Examples for "lime"
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Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
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Why, it is our best friend in the world; it is lime.
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Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
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But we have blood in our veins and lime in our bones.
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He squeezed some juice from the lime slice floating in the glass.
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The manure contains ammonia in form of salts, easily decomposed by quicklime
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They were then to be placed in a sack filled with quicklime.
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The brown lumps resolved into quicklime bags, stacked beside the back doors.
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Undaunted, he next tried the experiment of mixing quicklime with pure gum.
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As a flux it is used either as limestone or as quicklime.
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It cannot be doubted that lime (coctilis calx), which is snow-white and lighter than sponge, is useful for the mightiest buildings.
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In this connection Lavoisier says: We have, therefore, laid aside the expression metallic calx altogether, and have substituted in its place the word oxide.
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From the melted ore, in this subterranean region of infernal aspect, is produced a calx, or cinder, of which there is an enormous mountain.
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Thus lime ( calcium oxide) is made by strongly heating calcium carbonate:
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In modern manufacturing processes, sodium carbonate and calcium oxide are usually added to the base silica.
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The precipitate of calcium oxalate may be converted into calcium oxide by ignition without previous drying.
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Hitherto, for the sake of simplicity, the by-product in the preparation of acetylene has been described as calcium oxide or quicklime.
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As the calcium oxide absorbs moisture from the air, it must (after cooling) be weighed as rapidly as possible.
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This power is owing, no doubt, to the freshly calcined lime.
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The Company manufactures and distributes Ordinary Portland Cement, Sulphate Resistant Portland Cement, Portland Pulverized Fuel Ash Cement and Hydrated and Calcined Lime.
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So all over the ground about the plants sprinkle unslaked lime.
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The white of egg, with unslaked lime, has been known to give immediate relief.
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Lime Water.-Intoan earthen jar containing hot water stir a handful of fresh unslaked lime.
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For an alkaline dentifrice, there is nothing better than lime-water, made from coarse, unslaked lime.
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Boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead, and unslaked lime, were poured upon them every moment.
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He burnt lime, dragged timber, and tugged at the oar.
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First, quicklime, which is also called burnt lime, caustic lime, builders' lime, rock lime, and unslaked lime.
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The contents of the husk pits might advantageously be mixed up with the burnt lime, when a sufficiency of it has been saved.
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The Samuel process (experiment 20) consisted in the injection, first, of a solution of sulphate of iron, and afterward of common burnt lime.