quicklime
- n a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
- His doctor's tools were trench-digging machines and rifles, crowbars and pickaxes, vats of formaldehyde and carloads of quicklime.
- When the quicklime was removed from the cave over the course of last year, so too was what was left of the soil--which could affect the cave's climate and humidity.
- The footnote states that "because of an unexplained chemical reaction, the quicklime had not destroyed Casement's corpse.