quicklime
calcium oxide

That's the only reason you are here, and not in quicklime at the crossroads.

Not all the jars of quicklime hit plants, but many did.

"It's not the heat so much as for making the water basic that we drive them away with quicklime when they show up."

Quicklime is also thought to have been a component of Greek fire.

The air bit with the odors of ozone and quicklime.

You could also try to cover the carcass with powdered quicklime.

They'd used quicklime, which was why there wasn't much odor.

The quicklime had hit him in thirty other places.

"It would be easier to bleach him with quicklime," he said.

Freak tears open the bags and is covered in the quicklime.

When in use, the kiln would have produced raw quicklime.

Perhaps - but quicklime actually has a preserving effect.

Buried them in quicklime, so that there was nothing of them left?

For a long time, chalk was mined and fired into quicklime.

Quicklime briefly went clear and looked the likely winner.

Industrial quicklime is commonly used for the manufacture of cement.

That stone was thought to be steel, but it was in fact quicklime.

Others appeared to be shoveling soil or quicklime into large open graves.

Annual worldwide production of quicklime is around 283 million metric tons.

Bodies were usually buried in quicklime to hasten their decay.

There are still three kilns for burning the lime to make quicklime.

The body was recovered and reburied, supposedly this time with quicklime.

Also, quicklime is thought to be a component in Greek fire to make it ignite on contact with water.

He recognized it immediately: it was the smell of quicklime.

By contrast, "quicklime" specifically applies to a single chemical compound.