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quicklime
Quicklime is a highly caustic chemical substance, and its usage in a sentence typically carries a connotation of danger or industrial utility. It is most frequently encountered in technical, agricultural, or historical contexts, such as the preparation of mortar or the treatment of soil. Because of its extreme reactivity with water, it is often associated with heat and chemical burns.
As a mass noun referring to a chemical compound, it is treated as uncountable. It does not have a plural form in standard usage; instead, quantities are specified using partitive phrases such as "a shipment of quicklime" or "a quantity of quicklime."
Meanings
Examples
The workers carefully poured the quicklime into the mixing vat.
Be careful because quicklime can cause severe chemical burns on the skin.
Ancient builders used quicklime as a key ingredient in their mortar.
We need to order more quicklime for the soil treatment project.
The reaction between water and quicklime releases a significant amount of heat.
I wonder if they used quicklime to preserve the bodies in those old tombs.
The kiln was used to produce high purity quicklime from limestone.