In a message dated 6/13/2001 2:28:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> > Slaked = Soaked in water for 3 months or more
> > Unslaked = Quicklime or Hydrated Lime

Brian:

OK, let me get this straight (I never took chemistry -- this lime stuff still
remains a magical mystery to me) ....

Lime stone/ Oyster shells
then ----> Burnt
then becomes ----> Lime ashes or powder (name?)

THEN ---->

? (Water added, forms paste, age 3 months, use for mortar) = Slaked lime
(inert)? ---> also used for Whitewash (5:1)??

? (No water added, remains powder) = Quicklime or Hydrated lime (caustic
stuff, used to get rid of the corpus you don't want to habeus).

and if the last is correct ---->

Then, why is "hydrated lime" lime ashes without water added? Clearly I have a
short circuit in where somewhere. Once this is all sorted out in my head, I
am going to hang a diagram up on my wall, so I can memorize it once and for
all!

M