quicklime

See also: quick lime

English

Etymology

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

Noun

quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)

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

Synonyms

burnt lime, lime

Translations

calcium oxide

Albanian: gëlqere (sq) f
Armenian: կիր (hy) (kir)
Belarusian: ва́пна n (vápna)
Bulgarian: вар m (var)
Catalan: calç f, calcina (ca) f (Algherese)
Chechen: кир (kir)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 石灰 (zh) (shíhuī)
Czech: vápno (cs) n
Danish: kalk (da)
Dutch: ongebluste kalk (nl) m
Esperanto: kalko (eo)
Finnish: kalkki (fi)
French: chaux vive (fr) f
Georgian: კირი (ḳiri)
German: gebrannter Kalk m, Branntkalk m, ungelöschter Kalk m, Kalkerde f, Ätzkalk m, Calciumoxid
Gujarati: કળીચૂનો (kaḷīcūno)
Hungarian: mész (hu)
Ido: kalko (io)
Ingush: кир (kir)
Irish: aol beo m
Italian: calce viva f

Japanese: 石灰 (ja) (せっかい, sekkai)
Latvian: kaļķis (lv) m
Laz: კირი (ḳiri)
Macedonian: вар f (var)
Ossetian:
Digor: къирæ (k’iræ)

Iron: чъыр (ḱ’yr)
Persian: گچ‎‎ (fa) (gac)
Polish: wapno (pl) n, wapno niegaszone n
Portuguese: cal virgem f, cal viva f
Romanian: var (ro) n
Russian: негашёная и́звесть f (negašónaja ízvestʹ), жжёная и́звесть f (žžónaja ízvestʹ)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: carcína

Logudorese: calchína
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вапно n

Roman: vapno (sh) n
Spanish: cal viva f, cal (es) f
Swedish: kalk (sv) c
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)

Verb

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

(transitive) To treat with quicklime.

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