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Example sentences for "quicklime"

Lexicographically close words:
quickenings; quickens; quicker; quickest; quicklie; quickly; quickness; quickning; quicks; quicksand
  1. The first process is to boil the fat with quicklime and water in a large tub, by means of perforated steam pipes distributed over its bottom.

  2. The sediment of the copperas vat consists of sulphate of lime, oxide of iron, lime with indigo brown, and lime with indigo blue, when too much quicklime has been employed.

  3. In making water of ammonia on the great scale, a cast iron still should be preferred, and equal weights of quicklime and sal ammoniac should be brought to the consistence of a pap, with water, before the heat is applied.

  4. The quicklime may be replaced with litharge.

  5. This obstruction may be remedied by a freer circulation of air, or by the exposure of quicklime in the chamber.

  6. Lime water is used in medicine, and quicklime is of general use in chemical researches.

  7. Should quicklime be added to the solution of the ashes, a corresponding portion of caustic potassa will be introduced into the product, with more or less lime, according to the care taken in decanting off the clear lye for evaporation.

  8. They are lastly drained upon a sloping surface, as above described, and well turned over till the quicklime gets mild by absorption of carbonic acid; for, in its caustic state, it would damage the glue at the heat of boiling water.

  9. An addition of quicklime counteracts the injurious effect of too much magistral, by decomposing the resulting sulphate of copper.

  10. Quicklime or slaked lime is stirred into the water until the mixture gives a faint brown coloration when a drop of silver nitrate is added to a small test portion.

  11. From this ammonia gas is set free by adding quicklime and by blowing steam through the mixture.

  12. If fly becomes troublesome, dust the plants with quicklime early in the day, while the dew is on them, and repeat the operation as often as is necessary.

  13. Then take as much manure, in appearance, as you have dead leaves, and for each cartload have two bushels of unslaked quicklime and some earth.

  14. But limestone simply powdered, marls, or chalks, do not thus act on vegetable matter; and hence the operation of quicklime and mild lime depends on principles altogether different.

  15. Davy, therefore, very properly introduces the subject, by a description of the nature and qualities of these bodies, and by marking the distinctions between quicklime and its carbonate.

  16. Some freshly slaked quicklime may be afterwards pricked into the top with the fork.

  17. In very bad soils, powdered quicklime may also be added, not only to absorb superfluous moisture, but to render the soil sweeter and more fertile.

  18. His next step was to mix quicklime with the gum.

  19. He now proceeded to boil the gum, mixed with magnesia, in quicklime and water, and, as the result, obtained sheets of his compound whose firmness and smoothness of surface won them a medal at the fair of the American Institute in 1835.

  20. The warders strutted up and down, And watched their herd of brutes, Their uniforms were spick and span, And they wore their Sunday suits, But we knew the work they had been at, By the quicklime on their boots.

  21. The Warders strutted up and down, And kept their herd of brutes, Their uniforms were spick and span, And they wore their Sunday suits, But we knew the work they had been at By the quicklime on their boots.

  22. As the English scrambled on board of the French ships they threw quicklime in the eyes of their opponents.

  23. The Channel was also enlivened by occasional fights for fishing-grounds between fleets of fishing-craft, and the quicklime trick of Hubert de Burgh's battle was probably one of the methods of this irregular warfare.

  24. At this time it was known that water dissolves quicklime, but it was generally held that only about one-fourth (or perhaps a little more) of any specimen of quicklime could be dissolved by water, however much water was employed.

  25. Magnesia Alba, Quicklime and other Alkaline Substances," which contained the results of what is probably the first accurately quantitative examination of a chemical action which we possess.

  26. When quicklime was heated with "fixed alkalis" (i.

  27. The water used to slake the quicklime is a liquid, and it may be ice-cold water, but to form hydrate of lime it must assume a solid form, and hence can and does dispense with its heat of liquefaction in the change of state.

  28. The Warders strutted up and down, And kept their herd of brutes, Their uniforms were spick and span, And they wore their Sunday suits, But we knew the work they had been at, By the quicklime on their boots.

  29. This product is cooled, powdered and wet to destroy any quicklime or carbide left unchanged.

  30. The hole must have been excavated and the quicklime purchased quite three weeks before O'Connor met his death, and during that time he must frequently have stood or sat over his own grave.

  31. The interment in a shell filled with quicklime in the passage-way leading to the Old Bailey is also a part of the duty of the prison officials.

  32. A quantity of quicklime was thrown in with the body to destroy all identification.

  33. The respective action of quicklime and mild lime is, on the whole, similar, although the former is in every case very much more powerful in its effects than the latter.

  34. The disintegrating effect of quicklime when applied to heavy soils is also due, it may be added, to the change undergone by the lime itself from the caustic state to the mild state.

  35. The quicklime was dissolved, and the liquor thus constituted was found to answer very well.

  36. The same decomposition of common salt and evolution of soda takes place when unslacked quicklime is moistened with a solution of common salt, and left in a similar situation.

  37. Not even a conjecture appears in any ancient writer that I have looked into, about the difference between quicklime and limestone.

  38. Thus quicklime possessed properties very similar to the calces of metals.

  39. Limestone is a carbonate of lime; quicklime is the pure uncombined earth.

  40. When the salt had dissolved in the acid, ten ounces of mercury (previously distilled through quicklime and salt of tartar) were added.

  41. He gives an alternative permission, to lay down his mixture of dead bodies and quicklime to grass, or for the pasture of cows.

  42. Paupers and quicklime would make a capital compost, and scarcely require a top-dressing, of any kind, for years.

  43. The fruit being gathered are placed in a lye, composed of one part of quicklime to six of ashes of young wood sifted.

  44. When prepared for use, the nut is cut into slices and wrapped in the fresh leaves of the betel pepper vine, together with a quantity of quicklime (Chunam) to give it a flavor.

  45. The unrecognisable corpse of Olga Platanova was buried in quicklime outside the city walls.

  46. They buried his body in quicklime this afternoon.

  47. Air-slaked lime is simply quicklime which has taken from the air a gas called carbon dioxide.

  48. Water-slaked lime is quicklime to which water has been added.

  49. If he can buy a fair grade of quicklime delivered at his railway station for $5.

  50. Quicklime should always be slaked before it is applied to the soil.

  51. It was the custom to bury in quicklime in the prison yard the bodies of all the prisoners who died while in custody.

  52. Irish prisons still keep up the barbarism, and one of the reasons for the bitterness of the Irish after the insurrection of 1916 in Dublin was the burial of the executed in quicklime in the prison yard.

  53. The animals that succumb to the disease should be buried deeply and quicklime thrown upon them, also any blood stains upon the ground should have a strong disinfectant thrown upon them.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quicklime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.