fluxing lime

Questions about fluxing lime

What does fluxing lime mean?

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

What is another word for fluxing 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 fluxing lime a common word?

fluxing 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.