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Quicklime
Quicklime meaning
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
Synonyms of Quicklime
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The ingredients for a recipe given in 1871 included sulphuret of arsenic, quicklime and alkaline lye, to be applied on the face and washed off with hot water.
They were suspected of planning to murder a number of leftwing and pro-migrant figures after ordering body bags and quicklime, a chemical often spread at mass grave sites, regional newspaper group RND reported.
They scrambled over 'all of a sudden, with much violence,' and some attacked police with quicklime they had in tubes and bottles.
Calcination equilibrium Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world.