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                            calcium oxide
                        
                                                
                        
                            quicklime
                        
                                                
                        
                            lime
                        
                                                
                        
                            calx
                        
                                                
                        
                            calcined lime
                        
                                                
                        
                            fluxing lime
                        
                                                
                        
                            unslaked lime
                        
                                                
                        
                            burnt lime
                        
                                                
                                                    
                
                    
                    Definition: a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
Definition: The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).