Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
QUICKLIME
Etymology
Noun
quicklime (countable and uncountable, plural quicklimes)
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
Synonyms
• burnt lime, caustic lime, unhydrated lime, anhydrous lime, lime
Verb
quicklime (third-person singular simple present quicklimes, present participle quickliming, simple past and past participle quicklimed)
(transitive) To treat with quicklime.
Source: Wiktionary
Quick"lime, n. Etym: [See Quick, a.] (Chem.)
Definition: Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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