unslaked lime

British  

/ ʌnˈsleɪkt /

noun

1. another name for calcium oxide Compare slaked lime

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unslaked lime

Alkaline Dentifrice Food Acids For an alkaline dentifrice, there is nothing better than lime-water, made from coarse, unslaked lime.

From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

Or to preserve them more effectually, let them be smeared over with fresh mutton suet, and dusted with unslaked lime, pounded and tied up in muslin.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

Bring to a boil one pound of sal soda, half a pound of unslaked lime, a small lump of borax, and five quarts of water.

From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous

The powder consists of two parts of unslaked lime and three parts of ashes of oak, or holmoak, or Italian oak, or Turkey oak, or of some similar kind.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

The dropping of an icicle into a barrel of unslaked lime once caused a great disaster in one of our cities.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder

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