"lime" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Experiments were made mixing lime with other materials to provide a hydraulic mortar, but there was still no equivalent of the Roman concrete.
- The workers created the material by mixing lime (extracted by burning crushed oyster shells), more crushed shells, sand and water.
- Till Sir Henry, who happened to know something about it, showed them how to do it by mixing silica and lime, they could not make a piece of glass, and their crockery is rather primitive.
- The mosaicist has served tonight as his own apprentice, mixing lime for the setting bed, carrying it up the ladder himself.
- The Greeks began the use of slaked lime as mortar and the Romans furthered mortar development by mixing lime with volcanic ash and sand.
- These figures are sometimes smeared with a liquid made from mixing lime (calcium hydroxide), water and turmeric and which ritually represents blood.
- Pan sellers offer to mix lime, spices, and bits of nuts and tobacco in a fresh betel-leaf packet for chewing.
- It is made by mixing hydrated lime, sulfur, and water, and boiling for about 45 minutes.
- Another popular legend is that an English pirate concocted a beverage similar to the Mojito by mixing aguardiente, sugar, lime, and mint.
- Seljuq buildings generally incorporate brick, while the inner and outer walls are decorated in a material made by mixing marble, powder, lime and plaster.
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