Definition of Air-slake

1. Verb. Alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate. "Air-slake lime"

Generic synonyms: Slack, Slake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Air-slake

air-guitaring
air-guitars
air-intake
air-lock
air-mobile
air-proof
air-pump
air-pumps
air-raid shelter
air-raid shelters
air-raid warden
air-raid wardens
air-resistance
air-ride
air-shot
air-slake (current term)
air-tight
air-to-air
air-to-air missile
air-to-air missiles
air-to-ground
air-to-ground missile
air-to-surface
air-to-surface missile
air alert
air ambulance
air ambulances
air attache
air attack
air bag

Literary usage of Air-slake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fertilizers and Crops: Or, The Science and Practice of Plant-feeding; a by Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke (1912)
"The rapidity with which limes air-slake depends upon different conditions. Dry, fine, air-slaked lime may at best contain as much as 75 per cent, ..."

2. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture, Properties, and Uses by Adelbert Philo Mills (1915)
"The fact that quicklime does " air slake " when exposed to the air is not an unmitigated evil, however, because it renders possible the storage and even the ..."

3. Hydraulic Cement: Its Properties, Testing, and Use by Frederick Putnam Spalding (1906)
"... exposure will not endanger the work, even if used at once, but it would doubtless be better in using such cement to air-slake the whole before using. ..."

4. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills, Harrison Washburn Hayward (1922)
"The fact that quicklime does "air slake " when exposed to the air is not an unmitigated evil, however, because it renders possible the storage and even the ..."

5. Essays on Hydraulic and Common Mortars and on Limeburning by Clément Louis Treussart, Jean Constant Petot, C. Courtois (1838)
"... that it is better to slake fat lime to a powder, than to air-slake it. These experiments should, no doubt, be repeated with several kinds of lime, ..."

6. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1899)
"The lime in finely ground cements will air-slake sooner than that in coarsely ground. Free magnesia in cement acts very much like free lime. ..."

7. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"... 83 MASONRY. g 7 Both cement and lime should be kept in a dry place, as exposure to the air causes lime to air-slake. The action of the atmosphere ..."

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