Quicklime Definition

Quicklime Sentence Examples

• The halogens may be estimated by ignition with quicklime, or by heating with nitric acid and silver nitrate in a sealed tube.

• Quicklime should not be used, as it dispels the greater part of the ammonia.

• In the first method the substance, mixed with quicklime free from chlorine, is heated in a tube closed at one end in a combustion furnace.

• In the case of poorer interments the destruction of the body was, on the contrary, often accelerated by the use of quicklime.

• At this stage as a rule some rich slags of a former operation are added and a quantity of quicklime is incorporated, the chief object of which is to diminish the fluidity of the mass in the next stage, which consists in this, that, with closed air-holes, the heat is raised so as to cause the oxide and sulphate on the one hand and the sulphide on the other to reduce each other to metal.