Quicklime

If at some later stage something drastic occurs -- like some bodies being found in quicklime during an election campaign -- and the government produces some legislation on the subject, are the proponents of the Brief consulted? ❋ Unknown (1966)

Water acts upon lime with the evolution of a great deal of heat, -- hence the name quicklime, or live lime, -- the process being called slaking. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

Larger corpses have been mercifully lacking, with the exception of two sheep who made the shingle spit unvisitable for a couple of weeks before they were solemnly buried in quicklime by the local police. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Water flows into a sealed inner cone filled with quicklime, which is mostly calcium oxide. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This leaves only calcium oxide CaO, known as quicklime, the proportion of which determines the quality of the final product. ❋ Unknown (1994)

The process of burning limestone at temperatures above 900° C to produce quicklime, which is subsequently slaked with water to produce hydrated lime, has since become traditional practice in most countries, as lime is one of the most versatile materials known, being used for numerous industrial and agricultural processes, environmental protection and building construction. ❋ Unknown (1988)

The material which comes from the kiln is called quicklime, and, on being dosed with water, it slakes, and crumbles to powder, and in the state of slaked lime is mixed up with mortar. ❋ Various (N/A)

The coffin was of lead, and in it was found a skeleton of an extraordinary size, imbedded in quicklime, which is another proof of the Greek origin of Palæologus, as it is the custom in Greece to surround the body with quicklime. ❋ Various (1841)

San Jose, California (PRWEB) February 15, 2010 -- Lime, usually referred to as quicklime, is a derivative of limestone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A proven and inexpensive dusting preparation for maize cobs stored in their husks is quicklime which is distributed evenly in a fine coat over the stored products. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Most of these niches were already occupied, but in the earth below, by far the greater part of those who die at Havana, are buried without a monument or a grave which they are allowed to hold a longer time than is necessary for their bodies to be consumed in the quicklime which is thrown upon them. ❋ William Cullen Bryant (1836)

"quicklime"; on treatment with water it becomes hot, expands, and falls to a powder of "slaked lime" or calcium hydrate (CaH_ {2} O_ {2}). ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

Eccentric Jazz Age architect Addison Mizner used quicklime and shellac to age some leather chairs at Palm Beach's Everglades Club, never guessing that the body heat of the club's guests would turn the shellac to glue. ❋ Louis Bayard (2010)

For a start, there are some fascinating moments here, especially the rock-to-liquid magic of making quicklime. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Told about those flailing bodies corroded by quicklime in the sealed railway carriages, a bourgeois Berliner says: Very efficient. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The floor was covered with quicklime to burn the bodies, "the flesh eaten from their bones," death coming slowly, but taking up to four days. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And Lime, with his opportunist loyalties, is a familiar Greene character, whose surname suggests the quicklime in which murderers were said to be buried. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lime used can be either builders 'lime or quicklime. ❋ Unknown (2008)