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quicklime

[ kwik-lahym ]

quicklime

/ ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm /

noun

  1. another name for calcium oxide
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quicklime1

1350–1400; Middle English quyk lym, translation Latin calx vīva; quick, lime 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of quicklime1

C15: from quick (in the archaic sense: living) + lime 1
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Example Sentences

In the scorching heat, they forced the soldiers to dig their own graves, shot them dead one by one and buried the bodies, covering the remains with quicklime, according to a witness.

They were killed and we poured quicklime on them.

From BBC

Burning vast amounts of wood to convert limestone into quicklime ravaged the forests, which led to soil erosion and water contamination.

Lime clasts have long been observed in the quicklime, or calcium oxide, that was a mainstay of the Roman empire’s concrete mixtures.

But Masic and his colleagues wondered whether they were instead caused by the Romans using quicklime in their mix before setting it with water.

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