element

Quicklime

Elements

Caustic burned lime before slaking. Not chalk, and not milder lime putty speech alone.

Also known as Calcium oxide

  • Quicklime is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats quicklime among caustic burned-lime remedies. A Roman-era pharmacological use of sharp lime, not chalk as soft mark-stone and not potash.

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

    used in · sourced · documented

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