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Why should lime be used for ripening?

Why should lime be used for ripening?

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After cooked stone mortar and sand mix, a mortar, can be used for walls.
Of course, if you buy the lime is a block, because it is relatively large, so that it fully absorb the water, it takes a long time, and emit a lot of heat, so it is specially designed to make a pool to complete the ripening process.
Aging refers to the lime (that is, CaO), add water, let it change mature lime [Ca (OH) 2], this change process is called ripening. Popularly speaking, ripening means the conversion process of quicklime, water and stir.

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