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Meanings of quicklime in English
A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
Usage of quicklime in English
1
The manure contains ammonia in form of salts, easily decomposed by quicklime
2
They were then to be placed in a sack filled with quicklime.
3
The brown lumps resolved into quicklime bags, stacked beside the back doors.
4
Undaunted, he next tried the experiment of mixing quicklime with pure gum.
5
As a flux it is used either as limestone or as quicklime.
6
The searchers unearthed two buried vaults full of quicklime and human remains.
7
His body was covered in quicklime and buried in the prison grounds.
8
They looked ruined, as if the white was quicklime corroding their solidity.
9
First came the body in the native coffin, smeared with quicklime.
10
He counted down the seconds, then Oinan washed the quicklime off.
11
After he'd dumped the manure, he dusted it with the quicklime.
12
Like carrion, they were flung into those unconsecrated pits, and strewed with quicklime.
13
A heavy layer of quicklime dropped onto his head and shoulders.
14
A cloud of quicklime dust swirled through the air, sifting and settling everywhere.
15
The unrecognisable corpse of Olga Platanova was buried in quicklime outside the city walls.
16
His next step was to mix quicklime with the gum.
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United Kingdom
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