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Caustic lime   /kˈɑstɪk laɪm/   Listen
Caustic lime

noun
1.
A caustic substance produced by heating limestone.  Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, hydrated lime, lime, lime hydrate, slaked lime.





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... another; but as the present mixture has no attraction for the gas, it escapes, and in rising, forms the bubbling or effervescence. This may be proved to a child, by showing him, that if an acid is poured upon caustic lime (lime which has had this gas taken from it by fire) there ...
— Practical Education, Volume II • Maria Edgeworth


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