It generated enough heat for our purposes, and involved chemicals (water, calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide) that are comparatively safe and readily available. The reaction is also portable and ...

Calcium oxide means quicklime. When calcium oxide (CaO) is mixed with water, it becomes quicklime (calcium hydroxide). In ...

For decades, researchers believed that pozzolanic concrete was made by mixing slaked lime—a product of quicklime (calcium ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, Supplement 2. Some of the Papers Presented to the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association at the Boston Meeting, Sept. 25, 1905 (Feb., ...