Lime
While lime is one of the earliest industrial commodities known to man, its production and uses have grown with the times, and it continues to be one of the essential building blocks of modern industry.
Lime can be used for a wide range of purposes because of its different characteristics:
- alkaline reaction of lime with water (neutralisation, coagulation, flocculation)
- forming of water insoluble calcium salts (precipitation of heavy metals and sulfate)
- re-carbonation reaction with CO2 (hardening of plaster, increase of acid capacity)
- pozzolanic reaction with silicates (forming of calcium silicates)
- heat generation by contact of Quicklime with water (drying, pasteurisation, disinfection)
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