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The document summarizes the manufacture and uses of lime and calcium carbonate. Limestone consists mainly of calcium carbonate and lime is manufactured from limestone through thermal decomposition. Slaked lime is made by adding water to calcium oxide. Calcium carbonate is used in the production of iron and cement, where it decomposes to form lime, which reacts with impurities. Cement is produced by heating limestone and clay in a kiln. Calcium carbonate and lime have various uses including treating acidic soils and flue gas desulfurization.

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Carbonates

The document summarizes the manufacture and uses of lime and calcium carbonate. Limestone consists mainly of calcium carbonate and lime is manufactured from limestone through thermal decomposition. Slaked lime is made by adding water to calcium oxide. Calcium carbonate is used in the production of iron and cement, where it decomposes to form lime, which reacts with impurities. Cement is produced by heating limestone and clay in a kiln. Calcium carbonate and lime have various uses including treating acidic soils and flue gas desulfurization.

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Carbonates

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Manufacture of lime and calcium carbonate

● Limestone consists mainly of calcium carbonate, CaCO3


● Lime which is calcium oxide, is manufactured from calcium carbonate by
thermal decomposition:

CaCO3 → CaO + CO2

● Slaked lime, calcium hydroxide, is made by adding a small amount of water


slowly to calcium oxide:

CaO + H2O → Ca(OH)2


● Limewater is a solution of calcium hydroxide in water, hence it is alkaline
● The addition of carbon dioxide to calcium hydroxide produces the initial
starting material, calcium carbonate:

CO2 + Ca(OH)2 → CaCO3 + H2O

Chemical test to check the


presence of CO2
Use of CaCO3 in manufacture of iron and cement
● Limestone (calcium carbonate) is used in the manufacture of iron and
cement
● In the production of iron, limestone is added to the blast furnace where it
decomposes to form lime (CaO) and carbon dioxide
● The lime reacts with silica impurities to form calcium silicate, which floats to
the top of the molten iron and is removed:
CaO + SiO2 → CaSiO3
● Cement is manufactured by heating a mixture of powdered limestone and clay
in a rotary kiln
● Once heated, calcium sulfate and water are added which produce cement
● Cement is a hardened, interlocked structure of calcium aluminate (Ca(AlO2)2
and calcium silicate (CaSiO3)
Uses of lime and slaked lime

● CaCO3 is also used in treating excess acidity in soils and lakes where it is often
preferred to lime because it does not make the water in the soil alkaline
● Lime (calcium oxide) is used in lime mortar and in flue-gas desulfurization
● Flue-gas desulfurization involves spraying acidic sulfur dioxide emissions with jets of
slaked lime to reduce pollution by neutralising these gases before they leave the
factory chimneys
● It is also used in treating excess acidity in soils and lakes. If excess lime is used,
however, the water in the soil may become too alkaline
● Slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) is used in treating acidic soils and neutralising
acidic industrial wasted products

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