Slaked-lime Synonyms

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Synonyms for Slaked-lime

lime
Any of several evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Citrus having edible green or greenish-yellow fruit, especially the Mexican lime and the Persian lime.
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hydrated lime
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
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calcium hydrate
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
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caustic lime
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
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lime hydrate
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
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calcium-hydroxide
Slaked lime, Ca(OH)2, a white, crystalline compound prepared by the action of water on calcium oxide, used in making plaster, mortar, alkalies, bleaching powder, etc.
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Slaked-lime Sentence Examples

  • It was valued chiefly on account of its brilliancy of tone and its inertness in opposition to sunlight, oil, and slaked lime (in fresco-painting).

  • Clay-pipes may also give rise to cancer of lips in males in England, while cancer of the mouth of both sexes is common in India where chewing a mixture of betel leaves, areca-nut, tobacco and slaked lime is the usual practice.

  • When recommendations are made about liming land it is necessary to indicate more precisely than is usually done which of the three classes of material named above - chalk, quicklime or slaked lime - is intended.

  • The usual proportions are three of slag to one of slaked lime by weight.

  • The product may then be regarded as a cement of the Portland class mixed with slaked lime.

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