Please excuse my ignorance but, what is hydraulic lime?  I'm familiar with
mag lime--and I guess there's one that's not mag lime.  But we spread them
on our fields to combat acid soil conditions.  Hydraulics are for things
like jacks to pick up the back end of the tractor to change the tires, etc.

So now I'm confused--what else is new?  Ruth




At 10:34 PM -0500 10/29/02, M. P. Edison wrote:

>I left the lime conference last February convinced that the highly
>touted hydraulic lime is not very different from this - lime
>accelerated with fine silica. If one were willing to do some research,
>and could find good, consistent sources of flyash, one could
>conceivably produce hydraulic lime mortars that have the benefits of
>lime with the early rain and frost resistance of cement-lime
>combinations.
>
>Edison Coatings, Inc.
>M. P. Edison
>President
>3 Northwest Drive
>Plainville, CT 06062  USA
>Phone: (860)747-2220
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