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Slaked lime

noun
1.
A caustic substance produced by heating limestone.  Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, hydrated lime, lime, lime hydrate.





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... the use of certain substances which possess the power to destroy bacteria or their spores, or both. Those which are cheapest and most available for animal diseases are ordinary freshly slaked lime or unslaked in powder, chlorid of lime, crude carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, formaldehyde gas, formalin, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
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... slough has fallen off the wound is to be dressed with warm washes of carbolic acid, chlorid of zinc, permanganate of potash, or other antiseptic. If granulating (filling up) too fast, use burnt alum or air-slaked lime. Besides this local treatment, we find that the constitutional symptoms of fever and inflammation call for measures to prevent or control them. This is best done by placing the injured animal on soft or green feed. A physic of Barbados aloes, 1 ounce, should be given as soon as possible ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
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Words linked to "Slaked lime" :   hydrated oxide, hydroxide


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