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Definition of Slaking

Slaking
Slake Slake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaking.] [OE. slaken to render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See Slack, v. & a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. ``And slake the heavenly fire.' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.

Meaning of Slaking from wikipedia

- Look up slaking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slaking may refer to: Slaking (geology), the process in which earth materials disintegrate and crumble...
- {{CaO}+{\overset {water}{H2O}}->{\overset {calcium~hydroxide}{Ca(OH)2}}}}} Dry slaking is slaking quicklime with just enough water to hydrate the quicklime, but to...
- between the layers. Calcium hydroxide is produced commercially by treating (slaking) quicklime with water: CaO + H2O → Ca(OH)2 Alongside the production of...
- is not flat or vegetated. The slaking property does not necessarily have to be in the A horizon, with B horizon slaking only becoming a problem when the...
- Nicholas Slake was the Dean of Wells during 1398. He was appointed: Prebendary of Erdington in Bridgnorth 1394 Prebendary of Shirecote in Tamworth Prebendary...
- Slake's Limbo is a novel for young adults by Felice Holman, first published in 1974. The book is about a young adolescent boy, Aremis Slake, who runs...
- Kirlia Gardevoir Surskit Masquerain Shroomish Breloom Slakoth Vigoroth Slaking Nincada Ninjask Shedinja Whismur Loudred Exploud Makuhita Hariyama Azurill...
- time, it will be completely converted back to calcium carbonate unless slaked with water to set as lime plaster or lime mortar. Annual worldwide production...
- original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2010. "India looks to Burma to slake growing thirst for gas". The Christian Science Monitor. 26 April 2006. Archived...
- The Gyrwe's name means "fen dwellers", perhaps in reference to Jarrow Slake (a now-drained wetland that lay at the confluence of the Tyne and the Don)...