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What are the main use of lime?

What are the main use of lime?

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Lime milk and mortar, slaked lime or lime paste, with lots of paint. Lime mortar or slaked lime powder can be used to prepare lime mortar or cement lime mixture mortar for masonry or plastering engineering.
A rigid inorganic cementitious material consisting mainly of calcium oxide. Lime is made from limestone, dolomite, chalk and shell with high content of calcium carbonate and calcined at 900~1100 DEG C. Lime is one of the earliest cementitious materials used in human life. Lime is widely used in civil engineering and can be used in medicine in our country.
Lime stabilized soil mixes lime powder or lime powder with various crushed or formerly loose soil, and is obtained by mixing, compacting and curing. It is called lime stabilized soil. It includes lime soil, lime stabilized gravel soil, lime crushed stone soil and so on. Lime stabilized soil has a certain strength and water resistance. Widely used as a building foundation, ground cushion and road base.

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