air-slake

American  

[air-slayk] / ˈɛərˌsleɪk /

verb (used with object)

air-slaked, air-slaking

1. to slake (lime or the like) with moist air.

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air-slaked air-slaking

The green cabbage worm, one of the worst of all enemies, can be pretty effectually checked by means of air-slaked lime dusted over the leaves.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

For pastures or meadows air-slaked lime is used as a top-dressing.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett

There is a custom of grinding the core, or partially burned limestone of the kiln, together with impurities removed from builders' lime, and with this may be put some air-slaked lime.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

The remedy is air-slaked lime, or soot, or sifted coal ashes, or wood ashes diluted with dry road dust.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

When air-slaked lime is used it may be spread broadcast in the spring; the other forms should be applied in the fall or in the early winter.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett

It may be slaked either by exposure to the air, air-slaking, when it gradually takes up H2O and CO2; or by mixing with H2O, water-slaking.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams

The slowness with which air-slaking proceeds gives reason to expect that any bulk of old lime may contain a considerable percentage of the hydrate, and therefore have greater strength than a true carbonate like limestone.

From Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

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