Sentence examples for quicklime from inspiring English sources
noun
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
Chemists coined names such as sugar of lead, quicklime, milk of magnesia, Epsom salts (see magnesium), and laughing gas to describe familiar compounds.
Unlike quicklime, however, it was not caustic or soluble in water.
The gas could be replaced by adding potash solution to the quicklime, which demonstrated that the fixed air is contained in the alkali.
One of the oldest known products of a chemical reaction, quicklime is used extensively as a building material.
He then heated a sample of the starting compound and found that the product, magnesia usta (now known as magnesium oxide), like quicklime (calcium oxide), did not effervesce with acids.
He concentrated on calcium rather than magnesium salts, showing that, when chalk is heated strongly to quicklime, a gas is given off, and he concluded that this gas derives from the chalk and not from the fire in the furnace; this had been a point of contention among Edinburgh professors.
Calcium oxide, CaO, also known as lime or more specifically quicklime, is a white or grayish white solid produced in large quantities by roasting calcium carbonate so as to drive off carbon dioxide.
The reaction of quicklime with water is sometimes used in portable heat sources.
Clare turns his head to me, where we're crouched like spelunkers behind the musty, quicklime-smelling Doolittle house, which is built, I see, on much worse than shifting sand.
Mr Kruger proposes dumping quicklime calcium oxide into the sea.
The most likely ingredients were colloidal suspensions of metallic sodium, lithium, or potassium or perhaps quicklime in a petroleum base.
