air-slake

American  

[air-sleyk] / 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

Use about a bushel and a half of air-slaked lime to every thousand square feet.

From Making a Lawn by Luke Joseph Doogue

Second, air-slaked lime, which is also known as carbonate of lime, agricultural lime, marl, and limestone.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett

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

One ton of fresh burned lime, made from pure stone, is equivalent to 2640 pounds of the hydrate, and to 3570 pounds of pulverized limestone or of air-slaked lime.

From Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

Some potatoes that were rotting and were picked out of a heap of forty or fifty bushels were put into a corner and well dusted with air-slaked lime.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

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

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