What are the main uses of lime?
Lime is a kind of building material, which is mainly used for masonry mortar, plastering mortar, three land base, lime stabilized soil and lime fly ash stabilized soil. Its chemical composition is calcium hydroxide, an alkaline substance, which reacts with carbon dioxide in the air to form calcium carbonate.
An inorganic cementitious material with calcium oxide as the main component. Lime is a kind of raw material with high content of calcium carbonate, such as limestone, dolomite, chalk, shell and so on, which is calcined from 900 to 1100 DEG C. Lime is the earliest application of cementitious materials. Lime is widely used in civil engineering, and can be used in medicine. To this end, the ancient spread of lime as the theme of poetry, ode to the eternal song. Lime is widely used in civil engineering:(1) lime milk and mortar slaked lime powder or lime plaster. Lime mortar or lime powder can be used to prepare lime mortar or cement lime mortar for masonry or plastering works.(2) lime stabilized soil will be slaked lime powder or quicklime powder mixed with a variety of crushed or original loose soil, after mixing, compaction and maintenance of the mixture, known as lime stabilized soil. It includes lime soil, lime stabilized gravel soil, lime gravel soil and so on. Lime stabilized soil has certain strength and water resistance. Widely used as the foundation of the building, the ground cushion and the road base.
