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Quicklime

noun
1.
A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.  Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, lime, unslaked lime.





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"Quicklime" Quotes from Famous Books



... do availed to avert the doom, and on November 23rd Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were hanged outside Salford Gaol. Had they striven for freedom in Italy England would have honoured them; here she buried them as common murderers in quicklime in ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... himself, passed out the door. But the woman did not come upstairs. Fairchild knew why: her crazed mind was following the instructions of the man who knew how to lead the lunatic intellect into the channels he desired; she was digging, digging a grave for some one, a grave to be lined with quicklime! ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper


Words linked to "Quicklime" :   atomic number 20, oxide, calcium, ca


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