Word Meanings - AIR-SLACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.

Related words: (words related to AIR-SLACKED)

• PULVERIZATION
  The action of reducing to dust or powder.
• PULVERIZER
  One who, or that which, pulverizes.
• SLACK; SLACKEN
  1. To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather. 2. To be remiss or backward; to be negligent. 3. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake;
• SLACKNESS
  The quality or state of being slack.
• PULVERIZABLE
  Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable. Barton.
• SLACKLY
  In a slack manner. Trench.
• SLACK
  Small coal; also, coal dust; culm. Raymond.
• PULVERIZE
  To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.
• SLACKEN
  A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix
• EXPOSURE
  The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light. (more info) 1. The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• UNSLACKED
  Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.
• INEXPOSURE
  A state of not being exposed.
• FORESLACK
  See FORSLACK
• SELF-EXPOSURE
  The act of exposing one's self; the state of being so exposed.