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Quicklime vs Rusma - What's the difference?

quicklime | rusma |

As nouns the difference between quicklime and rusma

is that quicklime is lime, (calcium oxide ), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime while rusma is (archaic) a powerful depilatory fluid made from quicklime and sulphite of arsenic boiled in an alkaline solution.

As a verb quicklime

is to treat with quicklime.

quicklime

English

Noun

  • lime, (calcium oxide ), produced by heating limestone; on treatment with water it gives slaked lime

    • Synonyms

    * burnt lime

    Verb

    (quicklim)
  • To treat with quicklime.

    • rusma

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) A powerful depilatory fluid made from quicklime and sulphite of arsenic boiled in an alkaline solution.