element

Lime

Elements

Burned limestone and its caustic and mortar uses. Not chalk as soft mark-stone, and not quicklime under a second id.

Also known as Slaked lime

  • Lime is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats lime among burned-lime and mortar-related remedies and caustics. A Roman-era pharmacological use of lime, not chalk and not quicklime under a forced second id alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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