Quicklime definition

kwiklīm
A product consisting chiefly of calcium oxide, obtained by roasting limestone, marble, shells, etc.; unslaked lime.
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Lime, (calcium oxide), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime.
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To treat with quicklime.
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Noun

Singular:
quicklime
Plural:
quicklimes

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.

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