quicklime
IPA: kwˈɪkɫaɪm
noun
- Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
verb
- (transitive) To treat with quicklime.
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Examples of "quicklime" in Sentences
- Quicklime is a constituent of cement.
- DNA would not have survived the quicklime.
- He also tried to poison it with quicklime.
- Roman concrete was a mixture of quicklime and pozolan.
- On the way there Durdles points out a mound of quicklime.
- Freak tears open the bags, and is covered in the quicklime.
- Edgar manages to grab some quicklime and douses Glen in it.
- That stone was thought to be steel, but it was in fact quicklime.
- By contrast, quicklime specifically applies to a single chemical compound.