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Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.

1. Lime, calcium oxide, an alkaline earth occurring in grayish-white masses (quicklime) which on exposure to the air become converted into a white powder of calcium hydrate and calcium carbonate (air-slaked lime); the addition of water to calcium oxide produces calcium hydrate or slaked lime. 2. the heel.

The heel; an oxide; calcined lime.

Chalk or lime: the substance of a metal or mineral which remains after being subjected to violent heat.

Substance to which a mineral is reduced by violent heat.

Lime, Ca'rium Terroe, Protox'ide of Cal'cium, Calca'ria pura, (F.) Chaux. The lime, employed in pharmacy, should be recently prepared by calcination. When water is sprinkled over caustic lime, we have slaked lime, hydrate of lime,-the Calcis Hydras of the London pharmacopoeia.

See Calcaneum-c. Bismuthi, Bismuth, subnitrate of-c. Chlorinata, Calcis chloridum-c. Cum kali puro, Potassa cum calce-c. Salita, Calcis murias-c. Oxymuriatica, Calcis chloridum.

Lime, or calcium oxid.

Syn.: calcare. 1. Lime; of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph., purified quick lime (calcium monoxid), obtained by heating calcium carbonate. In chemical nomenclature the word was formerly used to denote the salts of calcium. For the salts of c, see under calcium

n. [Latin] Lime or chalk;—the earthy residuum which remains after the calcination of a metal or mineral.

Any thing rendered reducible to powder by burning.