What does hydrated lime mean?

hydrated lime means "a caustic substance produced by heating limestone".

What is another word for hydrated lime?

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

hydrated 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.

Hydrated lime — meaning and 6 synonyms

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

1.
a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
Synonymscalcium hydroxide lime slaked lime calcium hydrate caustic lime lime hydrate
Broaderhydroxide

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