Wiktionary
n. calcium hydroxide, a soft white powder, produced by adding water to quicklime. It is used in making mortar and cement, and has many industrial uses.
WordNet
n. a caustic substance produced by heating limestone [syn: calcium hydroxide, lime, hydrated lime, calcium hydrate, caustic lime, lime hydrate]
Usage examples of "slaked lime".
Though this does not sound a very practical procedure, there is evidently some foundation for this statement, as the following note which appeared in the Chemist and Druggist, January 6, 1923, would seem to prove: 'A liquid preparation for preventing, and also curing, blight in fruit trees, wherein the base is a liquid obtained by boiling the young shoots of the Elder tree or bush, mixed with suitable proportions of copper sulphate, iron sulphate, nicotine, soft soap, methylated spirit and slaked lime.
A few months later it was discovered that a fire clay lamp painted with slaked lime was stronger and brighter.
The trick turned out to be to mix clay with slaked lime and mold the heat exchangers into the lamp itself, then run it through the brick kiln to harden it.
Sturdy yeomen were out plowing their fields with a springtime optimism that came as a welcome change after Lescar, slaked lime piled in orderly heaps, ready to enrich the soil.
Their hickory-nut sized fruit matures in July, before maize, and can be ground with slaked lime into flour to make bread.