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# How to pronounce "quick lime" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/`
- **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quicklime.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-quicklime.wav.mp3)
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **qu·ic·klime**
- **Parts of Speech**: noun, verb
- **NOUN**: Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
  - *Example*: "The Warders strutted up and down, / And kept their herd of brutes, / Their uniforms were spick and span, / And they wore their Sunday suits, / But we knew the work they had been at, / By the quicklime on their boots."
- **VERB**: To treat (something) with quicklime.

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (3 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "quick lime" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "they made. Concrete isn't really sexy material but the way the Romans made concrete has allowed a lot of their buildings, bridges and roads to stand even to this day. And archaeologists, when they would look at Roman concrete, they always thought they had made a bit of a mistake when making it. And that one of the big ingredients in concrete is a substance called quick lime. You mix it with water and it helps form a glue to bind the concrete together. And when archaeologists looked at Roman concrete, they would find big undigested lumps of quick lime in there. And"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3-SFRJR2mM&t=1150s)

### Example 2
> "they would look at Roman concrete, they always thought they had made a bit of a mistake when making it. And that one of the big ingredients in concrete is a substance called quick lime. You mix it with water and it helps form a glue to bind the concrete together. And when archaeologists looked at Roman concrete, they would find big undigested lumps of quick lime in there. And they thought this was a mistake. You can imagine a loaf of bread in modern times. If you bid in and found a chunk of raw flour in there, you would think, "Okay, the baker didn't mix the flour as"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3-SFRJR2mM&t=1160s)

### Example 3
> "archaeologists at MIT recreated some of it and they found something very interesting with this concrete. With normal concrete, when water gets in there, it freezes, it expands it, it can crack it apart. With Roman concrete, when water got in there, it would find these undigested chunks of quick lime and react with them and actually create a substance that filled the space. So it was essentially self-healing concrete. And because of that feature of their concrete, it strengthened it over time and actually allowed it to stand much longer than modern concrete does. One of my"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 20:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3-SFRJR2mM&t=1220s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [quick](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/quick), [lime](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lime)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "quick lime" correctly?
"quick lime" is pronounced `/ˈkwɪkˌlaɪm/`. Syllable breakdown: **qu·ic·klime**.

### What does "quick lime" mean in context?
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.

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