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-[lime] is a calcium-containing in-organic material in which [‘carbonates’ / ‘oxides’ / ’hydroxides’] predominate-
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(in the strict sense of the term, ‘lime’ is ‘calcium oxide’ or calcium ‘hydroxide’)
(it is also the name of the natural mineral (‘native lime’) ‘CaO’ which occurs as a product of coal seam fires and in altered limestone xenoliths in ‘volcanic ejecta’)
(the word “lime” originates with its earliest use as building mortar and has the sense of “sticking or adhering”)
(these materials are still used in large quantities as ‘building’ and ‘engineering’ materials (including limestone products, concrete, and mortar), as chemical feedstocks, and for sugar refining, among other uses)
(‘lime’ industries and the use of many of the resulting products date from prehistoric times in both the ‘old world’ and the ‘new world’)
(‘lime’ is used extensively for wastewater treatment with ‘ferrous sulfate’)
(the rocks and minerals from which these materials are derived, typically ‘limestone’ or ‘chalk’, are composed primarily of ‘calcium carbonate’)
(they may be ‘cut’, ‘crushed’, or ‘pulverized’ and ‘chemically altered’)
(“burning” (‘calcination’) converts them into the highly caustic material “quicklime” (calcium oxide, CaO) and, through subsequent addition of water, into the less caustic (but still strongly alkaline) “slaked lime” or “hydrated lime” (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2), the process of which is called “slaking of lime”)
(‘lime kilns’ are the ‘kilns’ used for lime ‘burning’ and ‘slaking’).
(when the term is encountered in an agricultural context, it usually refers to agricultural lime, which is crushed limestone, not a product of a ‘lime kiln’)
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(otherwise it most commonly means ‘slaked lime’, as the more dangerous form is usually described more specifically as ‘quicklime’ or “burnt lime”)
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