Slaked-lime Definition

Slaked-lime Sentence Examples

• It was valued chiefly on account of its brilliancy of tone and its inertness in opposition to sunlight, oil, and slaked lime (in fresco-painting).

• Clay-pipes may also give rise to cancer of lips in males in England, while cancer of the mouth of both sexes is common in India where chewing a mixture of betel leaves, areca-nut, tobacco and slaked lime is the usual practice.

• When recommendations are made about liming land it is necessary to indicate more precisely than is usually done which of the three classes of material named above - chalk, quicklime or slaked lime - is intended.

• The usual proportions are three of slag to one of slaked lime by weight.

• The product may then be regarded as a cement of the Portland class mixed with slaked lime.