Meanings of quick lime in English

The remote limestone in the north of the country was quite good.

I'm not absolutely sure, but I think they used limestone before that.

Good building-stone was procurable everywhere; limestone at a distance of five miles.

The lower is the cross-bedded sandstone, and the upper the cherty limestone.

You can purchase and apply different types of limestone to your soil.

It cannot be doubted that lime (coctilis calx), which is snow-white and lighter than sponge, is useful for the mightiest buildings.

In this connection Lavoisier says: We have, therefore, laid aside the expression metallic calx altogether, and have substituted in its place the word oxide.

From the melted ore, in this subterranean region of infernal aspect, is produced a calx, or cinder, of which there is an enormous mountain.

Thus lime ( calcium oxide) is made by strongly heating calcium carbonate:

In modern manufacturing processes, sodium carbonate and calcium oxide are usually added to the base silica.

The precipitate of calcium oxalate may be converted into calcium oxide by ignition without previous drying.

Hitherto, for the sake of simplicity, the by-product in the preparation of acetylene has been described as calcium oxide or quicklime.

As the calcium oxide absorbs moisture from the air, it must (after cooling) be weighed as rapidly as possible.

So all over the ground about the plants sprinkle unslaked lime.

The white of egg, with unslaked lime, has been known to give immediate relief.

Lime Water.-Intoan earthen jar containing hot water stir a handful of fresh unslaked lime.

For an alkaline dentifrice, there is nothing better than lime-water, made from coarse, unslaked lime.

Boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead, and unslaked lime, were poured upon them every moment.

Some heat is also gained by the slaking of the caustic lime within the liquor.

First, quicklime, which is also called burnt lime, caustic lime, builders' lime, rock lime, and unslaked lime.

These nitrates are neutral salts and do not act on manure as caustic lime or wood ashes would do.

It was an analysis of some caustic lime from Tuscany, which had been sent to Davy by the Duchess of Montrose.

As already intimated, Faraday had contributed many of his minor papers-includinghis first analysis of caustic lime-tothe 'Quarterly Journal of Science.'

With every crop the limestone has given better results than the burned lime.

They made kilns and burned lime for top-dressing.

Their far-sightedness and patriotism combine to lead them to try to sell carloads of limestone instead of tons of burned lime.

It looked like burned lime, or else the secretions of about a billion birds; and there were no birds to speak of.

Burned lime may cause injury.

He burnt lime, dragged timber, and tugged at the oar.

First, quicklime, which is also called burnt lime, caustic lime, builders' lime, rock lime, and unslaked lime.

The contents of the husk pits might advantageously be mixed up with the burnt lime, when a sufficiency of it has been saved.

The Samuel process (experiment 20) consisted in the injection, first, of a solution of sulphate of iron, and afterward of common burnt lime.