"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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: "Robert" wrote in message
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: : If you want real lime, try a builder's merchant, especially one
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: : sells lime mortars.
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: Builder's lime is a different thing altogether and is inactive on
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: That is quite incorrect. Builders' lime is Calcium Hydroxide, known
: as "slaked lime" It is an alkaline material which is very frequently
: used to treat acid soil.
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: Franz

ps Slaked lime is not builder's lime, slaked lime is gardeners' lime.
Builders' lime is hydrated lime. So we are as one even though we didn't know
it lol. Merry Christmas Franz
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