quicklime
Noun
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Noun
quicklime
- Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
- burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime
- French: chaux vive
- German: gebrannter Kalk, Branntkalk, ungelöschter Kalk, Kalkerde, Ätzkalk, Calciumoxid
- Italian: calce viva
- Portuguese: cal virgem, cal viva
- Russian: негашёная и́звесть
- Spanish: cal viva, cal
quicklime (quicklimes, present participle quickliming; past and past participle quicklimed)
- (transitive) To treat with quicklime.
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