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7 unusual facts about calcium oxide


Capture of USS Chesapeake

A large cask of un-slaked lime was found open on Chesapeake's forecastle, and another bag of lime was discovered in the fore-top.

Century egg

Instead of using just clay, a mixture of wood ash, quicklime, and salt is included in the plastering mixture, thereby increasing its pH and sodium content.

Death in Five Boxes

The doctor is carrying four wrist watches; a beautiful dealer in art is carrying a bottle of quicklime and another of phosphorus; and the owner of the Anglo-Egyptian Importing Company is carrying the ringing mechanism of an alarm clock and a convex piece of glass.

Galong, New South Wales

A kiln was built at the mine in 2003/04 to allow the production of quicklime for use in cement.

The Galong deposit was first mined in 1885 with significant mining activity in the 1920s producing burnt lime or quicklime, which is used in the production of cement.

Hurworth-on-Tees

Three dips in the village green mark the site where as many as 1,500 people were buried in massive lime pits.

Roslyn, Pennsylvania

He built lime kilns to turn the abundant local limestone into quicklime, starting an industry that operated into the late 20th century.


Magnesium oxide wallboard

However, New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge base is made from locally mined cement, a mixture of calcium oxide and magnesia cement commonly called Rosendale Natural Cement, the only natural non-fired cement made in the US.


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