slaked lime

Questions about slaked lime

What is another word for slaked lime?

It depends which slaked lime you mean. In the sense “a caustic substance produced by heating limestone”, the synonyms are calcium hydroxide, lime, hydrated lime, calcium hydrate, caustic lime, lime hydrate. Across all 1 sense there are 6 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of slaked lime?

WordNet records no antonym for slaked lime. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for slaked lime come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of slaked lime

• Full entry for slaked limeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for slaked limeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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