Lime
Encyclopedia

Chemistry

  • Lime (material), a general term for inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide
    • Calcium oxide
      Calcium oxide
      Calcium oxide , commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white, caustic, alkaline crystalline solid at room temperature....

      , aka burnt lime or quicklime
    • Calcium hydroxide
      Calcium hydroxide
      Calcium hydroxide, traditionally called slaked lime, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ca2. It is a colourless crystal or white powder and is obtained when calcium oxide is mixed, or "slaked" with water. It has many names including hydrated lime, builders lime, slack lime, cal, or...

      , aka slaked lime, slack lime, pickling lime or hydrated lime
  • Agricultural lime
    Agricultural lime
    Agricultural lime, also called aglime, agricultural limestone, garden lime or liming, is a soil additive made from pulverized limestone or chalk. The primary active component is calcium carbonate...

    , a soil additive
  • Hydraulic lime
    Hydraulic lime
    Hydraulic lime is a variety of lime, a slaked lime used to make lime mortar. Hydraulicity is the ability of lime to set under water. Hydraulic lime is produced by heating calcining limestone that contains clay and other impurities. Calcium reacts in the kiln with the clay minerals to produce...

    , used to make lime mortar
  • Lime water
    Lime water
    Limewater is the common name for saturated calcium hydroxide solution. It is sparsely soluble. Its chemical formula is Ca2. Since calcium hydroxide is only sparsely soluble, i.e. ca. 1.5 g per liter at 25 °C, there is no visible distinction to clear water. Attentive observers will notice a slightly...

    , saturated calcium hydroxide solution

Geography

  • Lime, Oregon
    Lime, Oregon
    Lime is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States, five miles north of Huntington on U.S. Route 30/Interstate 84. It is near the confluence of Marble Creek and the Burnt River on the Union Pacific Railroad. The Oregon Trail passes through Lime.Lime post office was...

  • Limé
    Limé
    Limé is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-References:*...

    , a French commune in the Aisne departments
  • Lime Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota
  • Lime Lake Township, Minnesota
    Lime Lake Township, Minnesota
    Lime Lake Township is a township in Murray County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 225 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...

  • Lime Lake, a lake in Murray County, Minnesota
    Murray County, Minnesota
    As of the census of 2000, there were 9,165 people, 3,722 households, and 2,601 families residing in the county. The population density was 13 people per square mile . There were 4,357 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile...


Media and entertainment

  • Lime (band)
    Lime (band)
    Lime was a synth-pop group from Montréal, Canada, during the 1980s. The group was composed of husband and wife Denis and Denyse LePage, although two younger and more attractive singers, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, were chosen to tour and appear as the act. They are most noted for their songs "Angel...

  • Lime (magazine)
    Lime (magazine)
    LIME was a monthly magazine published under the umbrella of MediaCorp that targeted Asian youths and focused on tabloid breaking news, music, celebrity,entertainment and lifestyle....

    , an Asian lifestyle magazine
  • Lime (Arvingarna album)
  • Lime Pictures, a TV production company
  • Lime TV, a former television network
  • LIME (Cable & Wireless)
    LIME (Cable & Wireless)
    LIME, an acronym for 'Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment', is a communications provider owned by the British based Cable & Wireless Communications plc operating in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts...

    , a Caribbean telecommunications company
  • Lime, a Saber Marionette J
    Saber Marionette J
    is a Japanese anime produced by Hal Film Maker, aired on TV Tokyo from October 1, 1996 to March 25, 1997. It is the second installation of the Saber Marionette line of series, preceding Saber Marionette J Again and succeeding Saber Marionette R...

    character
  • Limes (magazine)
    Limes (magazine)
    Limes is a bimonthly Italian geopolitical magazine. It has two sister publications: the English-language Heartland, Eurasian Review of Geopolitics and the Serbo-Croatian Limesplus....

    , an Italian geopolitical magazine

Other uses

  • Lime (color)
    Lime (color)
    Lime, also traditionally known as lime green or lime-green, is a color three-quarters of the way between yellow and green , so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes...

    , a color between yellow and green
  • Limes
    Limes
    A limes was a border defense or delimiting system of Ancient Rome. It marked the boundaries of the Roman Empire.The Latin noun limes had a number of different meanings: a path or balk delimiting fields, a boundary line or marker, any road or path, any channel, such as a stream channel, or any...

    , an ancient border defense system
  • Orio al Serio Airport
    Orio al Serio Airport
    Caravaggio Airport Bergamo Orio al Serio aka Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport is an airport located in Orio al Serio, southeast of Bergamo, Italy. It is popular with low-cost airlines offering flights to Milan, 45 km away from the airport...

    , ICAO code LIME
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK