quicklime

See also: quick lime

English

Many a local limekiln once produced quicklime by the barrowful.

Etymology

From Middle English quyk lym; equivalent to quick +‎ lime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)

2. Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.

   Synonyms: anhydrous lime, burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime

   Hypernym: lime (elliptically synonymous in some contexts)

   Coordinate terms: slaked lime, calcium hydroxide; limewater, milk of lime

   • 1898, Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol:

     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.

   • 1915 December 4, “Burgundy mixture as a substitute for Bordeaux mixture”, in The Agricultural News: A Fortnightly Review of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies‎^[1], volume 14, number 355, Barbados, page 398:

     Considerable difficulty is experienced in several of the West Indian islands in obtaining quicklime for the preparation of Bordeaux mixture, and in keeping it in good condition when it has been procured. This has resulted in the use of slaked, or partially slaked, lime for the purpose, with the result that an inferior mixture has been produced. Instead of resorting in this difficulty to expensive and unsatisfactory commercial preparations, it may be suggested that the use of Burgundy mixture, in which the lime is replaced by sodium carbonate (washing soda) offers an alternative that is likely to give excellent results.

Translations

calcium oxide

• Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f
• Armenian: կիր (hy) (kir)
• Belarusian: ва́пна (be) n (vápna)
• Bulgarian: негасена вар f (negasena var)
• Catalan: calç (ca) f, calcina (ca) f (Algherese)
• Chechen: кир (kir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) (shíhuī)

• Czech: vápno (cs) n, pálené vápno n
• Danish: kalk (da)
• Dutch: ongebluste kalk m
• Esperanto: kalko (eo)
• Estonian: põletatud lubi, kustutamata lubi
• Finnish: kalkki (fi)
• French: chaux vive (fr) f
• Georgian: კირი (ka) (ḳiri)
• German: gebrannter Kalk m, Branntkalk m, ungelöschter Kalk m, Kalkerde f, Ätzkalk (de) m, Calciumoxid
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἄσβεστος f (ásbestos)

• Gujarati: કળીચૂનો (kaḷīcūno)
• Hindi: अनबुझा चूना (anbujhā cūnā)
• Hungarian: oltatlan/égetett mész
• Icelandic: kalk (is) n
• Ido: kalko (io)
• Ingush: кир (kir)
• Irish: aol beo m
• Italian: calce viva f
• Japanese: 石灰 (ja) (せっかい, sekkai)
• Korean: 생석회, saengseoghoe (saengseokhoe, saengseoghoe)
• Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m
• Laz: კირი (ǩiri)
• Macedonian: вар f (var)
• Malayalam: നീറ്റുകക്ക (ml) (nīṟṟukakka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brent kalk m, ulesket kalk m, kalsiumoksid n

• Ossetian:

  Digor Ossetian: къирӕ (k’iræ)

  Iron Ossetian: чъыр (ḱ’yr)

• Polish: wapno (pl) n, wapno palone n, wapno niegaszone n
• Portuguese: cal virgem f, cal viva f
• Romanian: var (ro) n, var nestins (ro) n
• Russian: негашёная и́звесть f (negašónaja ízvestʹ), жжёная и́звесть f (žžónaja ízvestʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: carcína

  Logudorese: calchína

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вапно n

  Latin: vapno (sh) n

• Spanish: cal viva f, cal (es) f
• Swedish: kalk (sv) c, bränd kalk c, osläckt kalk c
• Tamil: சுண்ணாம்பு (ta) (cuṇṇāmpu)
• Turkish: kalsiyum oksit (tr), sönmemiş kireç, yanmış kireç
• Ukrainian: ва́пно (uk) n (vápno), палене ва́пно (uk) n (palene vápno), негашене ва́пно (uk) n (nehašene vápno)
• Welsh: calch brwd

Verb

quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)

1. (transitive) To treat (something) with quicklime.

See also

• limelight