Lime Slaking is the process of adding water to quick lime, turning the traditional building material lime from calcium oxide (burnt lime or quicklime) into calcium hydroxide, (slaked lime or hydrated lime).
Traditionally it was used to add to the land to “sweeten” the acidic soil, as a mortar when building or as a lime wash.
It also has many other uses which you may not be aware of, such as purifying sugar, softening water, treating waste water and in the manufacture of medicines, paper and insecticides and the list goes on.
This next video is presented by Glyn Gaskill one of the LLIMEYS volunteers. Please don’t try this yourself unless you are properly trained and have the correct safety equipment.