burnt lime

Questions about burnt lime

What does burnt lime mean?

burnt lime means "a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide".

What is another word for burnt lime?

Close synonyms include calcium oxide, quicklime, lime, calx, calcined lime. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burnt lime a common word?

burnt lime is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.