What does calcium hydroxide mean?

calcium hydroxide means "a caustic substance produced by heating limestone".

What is another word for calcium hydroxide?

Close synonyms include lime, slaked lime, hydrated lime, calcium hydrate, caustic 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 calcium hydroxide a common word?

calcium hydroxide 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.

Calcium hydroxide — meaning and 6 synonyms

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
Synonymslime slaked lime hydrated lime calcium hydrate caustic lime lime hydrate
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