Quicklime is calcium oxide [ CaO ].......Slaked lime is calcium hydroxide [ Ca(OH)2 ] formed by water and CaO in eqivalent quantity producing a powder....extra water forms limewater ( clear ), or milk of lime ( cloudy ).
regards, Henk ( first post as i am still perusing the archives.... only 6000 more to go ) --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > girlMark: > > neither slaked lime nor dried out hard crud will work. > Must be free-flowing, finely powdered, "unslaked" lime > (AKA "quicklime") -- the stuff you throw on dead bodies > to dessicate them :-( !! > > > I believe quicklime is the same thing we natural builder types use for > >lime plaster. For plastering, there is a cheap or free source of it in some > >areas: waste slag from acetylene plants. They often are happy to give it > >away, and have a mountain of the stuff. That's the good news. the bad news > >is that what';s perfect for lime plaster is wet- lime putty or 'slaked > >lime' and that's what the waste product from acetylene mostly is. But > >apparently some of the 7-foot high mountain of lime putty my co-worker > >recently 'mined' at an acetylene plant was a crust of dried out hard crud. > >Would this free resource be useful for dessicating ethanol, or am I wrong > >on my definitions? > >girl Mark ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
