Difference between Quicklime and Calx

What is the difference between Quicklime and Calx?

Quicklime as a noun is lime, (calcium oxide), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime while Calx as a noun is the substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston.

Quicklime

Part of speech: noun

Definition: lime, (calcium oxide), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To treat with quicklime.

Calx

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston.(Now recognised as being) the oxide left after calcination of a metal.calcium oxide

We hope you now know whether to use Quicklime or Calx in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles