AIR-SLAKE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate

Example:

air-slake lime

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "air-slake" is one way to...):

slack; slake (cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

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