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    Calcium Oxide

    Calx, lim, or lime. Regardless what term you use, they all mean the same thing. Calcium Oxide is a widely-used chemical compound with the chemical symbol CaO. It is described as colorless and crystalline or white and shapeless. Other names for calcium oxide are quicklime and caustic lime.

    Calcium oxide is produced via the heating of coral, limestone, chalk, or sea shells, all of which are calcium carbonates. This way expels carbon dioxide gas, leaving lime as the major product. Moreover, this particular way is reversible, meaning, lime reacts with carbon dioxide in order to produce calcium carbonate.

    Sourcing out calcium oxide from limestone is among the oldest chemical techniques done by man. The vast presence of limestone in the planet and its convenient technique of producing calcium oxide from it's only one of the factors why lime is considered as an ancient chemical product. Another reason is its being valuable. Since it has a lot uses, industries manufacture it in a large scale. In fact, the United States produced about 20 million metric tons of calcium oxide in the year 2000.

    Calcium oxide's reaction with carbon dioxide is at a slow rate in room temperature. However, the way can be sped up by mixing water with lime, producing calcium hydroxide or slaked lime. The reaction of carbon dioxide and calcium hydroxide then is made faster, creating a quick-hardening mortar as an end product.

    Calcium oxide is of amazing importance to the modern world. Almost half of its production is intended for use by the steel industry. This is because of the fact that lime has the capability to respond with silicates to form solutions.

    The manufacture of some metals also utilizes calcium oxide. Some chemicals are also produced using lime as an vital material. There are numerous industrial techniques that involve the use of calcium oxide such as elimination of phosphates in sewages, water supply pretreatment, pulping wood in the paper industry, and as coagulant in the sugar industry.

    Calcium oxide can be injurious when inhaled, alarming the lungs, causing shortness of breath and coughing. Contact can lead to eye and skin irritations or burns. Being laid bare for a long time may result to nose irritation which can later result to a porous bone, fragile nails, and breaks in the skin.

    Lime even played a monstrous part in theatres. Why else, do you think, would they call limelight as such?

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