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Slaked lime

noun
1.
A caustic substance produced by heating limestone.  Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, hydrated lime, lime, lime hydrate.





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"Slaked lime" Quotes from Famous Books



... Co., Pa., also prefers to apply lime to newly-seeded grass or clover. He puts on 100 bushels of slaked lime per acre, either in the fall or in the spring, as most convenient. He limes one field every year, and as the farm is laid off into eleven fields, all the land receives a dressing of lime ...
— Talks on Manures • Joseph Harris


Words linked to "Slaked lime" :   hydroxide, hydrated oxide


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