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The lime kilns on Lindisfarne are among the few being actively preserved in Northumberland.
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A Dundee firm built lime kilns on Lindisfarne in the 1860s, and lime was burnt on the island until at least the end of the 19th century.
Horses carried limestone, along the Holy Island Waggonway, from a quarry on the north side of the island to the lime kilns, where it was burned with coal transported from Dundee, Scotland.
Workings on the lime kilns stopped by the start of the 20th century.
Lindisfarne had a large lime burning industry, and the kilns are among the most complex in Northumberland.
The pilgrim road to Trondheim that was established after 1030 went through Bærum, and there is evidence that lime kilns were in use in the area in 850.
Brookfield was a thriving town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation.
The name relates to the local lime kilns or, more precisely, lime oasts, by the river and operated by the large potteries that served shipping in the London Docks.
Speed lime kilns came to Milltown in the 1880s, that town began to surpass Leavenworth in population.
" Stillwater is known for its lakeside summer residences, abundant limestone and lime kilns.
The area is dotted with lime kilns, which used to burn lime to enrich the soil, but are now obsolete, becoming lost to history and the overgrowth of vegetation.
Soon, 16 limestone kilns were producing lime.
The Plymouth Railroad was built in 1836 to serve some 20 lime kilns operating along the route between Conshohocken and Cold Point.
Other early industry included lime kilns and the extracting of zinc and iron ore.
The site had previously been a limestone quarry, and also had a brickworks, pottery and lime kilns for producing lime from limestone, as well as part of a farm.
The museum is sited in a former chalk quarry where the chalk was converted into lime for use in mortar and cement, and remaining on site are several kilns, including a De Witt set, and associated buildings including offices, bagging shed and locomotive shed.
* Rolle Road: This is the site of the Rolle Canal which opened in 1827 to help transport clay, lime and other commodities between the boats on the tidal river at Landcross and the lime kilns, clay pits and farms around Torrington.
So kilns always made 25-30 tonnes of lime in a batch.
One example at Annery in North Devon, England, near Great Torrington, was made up of three kilns grouped together in an ' L ' shape and was situated beside the Torrington canal and the River Torridge to bring in the limestone and coal, and to transport away the calcined lime in the days before properly metalled roads existed.
A lime kiln erected at Dudley, West Midlands ( formerly Worcestershire ) in 1842 survives to this day as part of the Black Country Living Museum which opened in 1976 ; although, the kilns were last used during the 1920s.
lime and on
A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.
It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.
Some of the lime that is always on hand in the Capitol basement for plaster repairs was slaked several months for us ; ;
but to make it stiffer, of a really putty-like consistency to avoid cracking, we added a little hydrated lime -- hard on the hands, but we could see no other disadvantage.
For convenience we chose a stronger pigment, unknown to the early Italians or to Brumidi, titanium oxide, reserving the active lime white for highest lights, put on at the end of the day's stint.
Other plants can also be damaged by acid rain, but the effect on food crops is minimized by the application of lime and fertilizers to replace lost nutrients.
He adopted the Latinate name Linnæus after a giant linden tree ( or lime tree ), in Swedish, that grew on the family homestead.
It is uncertain where it was first discovered that a combination of hydrated non-hydraulic lime and a pozzolan produces a hydraulic mixture ( see also: Pozzolanic reaction ), but concrete made from such mixtures was first used by the Ancient Macedonians and three centuries later on a large scale by Roman engineers.
He performed an exhaustive market research on the available hydraulic limes, visiting their production sites, and noted that the " hydraulicity " of the lime was directly related to the clay content of the limestone from which it was made.
Ground granulated blast furnace slag is not hydraulic on its own, but is " activated " by addition of alkalis, most economically using lime.
Fausto Rodriguez, a young messenger, later recalled that Captain Russell came in and ordered Bacardi ( Gold ) rum and Coca-Cola on ice with a wedge of lime.
Fresco may thus be contrasted with secco mural painting techniques, on plasters of lime, earth, or gypsum, or applied to supplement painting in fresco.
Buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh ( hence the name ) lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word for plaster, intonaco, is used.
Chalk has also been used as a building material and, once fired, the resultant lime was spread on agricultural land to improve fertility.
Also important was the 1756 rediscovery of concrete ( based on hydraulic lime mortar ) by the British engineer John Smeaton, which had been lost for 1300 years.
The buon fresco technique consists of painting in pigment mixed with water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster.
The meat can be marinated by rubbing with olive oil and sea salt or with spice rubs such as lemon and pepper or garlic salt, lime and Worcestershire sauce, before being cooked on a grill.
In a search for lime on the island, a soldier in 1709 claimed to have discovered gold and silver deposits in Breakneck Valley.
lime and Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne was mainly a fishing community for many years, with farming and the production of lime also of some importance.
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Other names for green quartz are vermarine, greened amethyst, or lime citrine.
Carbonates are widely used in industry, e. g. in iron smelting, as a raw material for Portland cement and lime manufacture, in the composition of ceramic glazes, and more.
They are usually complex proprietary formulations containing Portland clinker and a number of other ingredients that may include limestone, hydrated lime, air entrainers, retarders, waterproofers and coloring agents.
Mixtures of ground pozzolan and lime are the cements used by the Romans, and can be found in Roman structures still standing ( e. g. the Pantheon in Rome ).
They are similar to pozzolan lime cements in their properties.
The level of clay components in the limestone ( around 30 – 35 %) is such that large amounts of belite ( the low-early strength, high-late strength mineral in Portland cement ) are formed without the formation of excessive amounts of free lime.
Grapefruit juice, pineapple, apple, grape, lime, and lemon juice are also common.
The cracks and detachments are stopped with lime putty and injected with an epoxy resin loaded with micronized silica.
However, the soda makes the glass water soluble, which is usually undesirable, so lime ( calcium oxide, generally obtained from limestone ), some magnesium oxide ( MgO ) and aluminium oxide ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) are added to provide for a better chemical durability.
Fictions referred to as " lime " are ones in which the characters do everything short of having sexual intercourse with each other .< ref name =" Short History ">" A Short History of < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Hentai < nowiki >'</ nowiki >", by Mark McLelland, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 12, January 2006.
There are still some traces of the jetties by which the coal was imported and the lime exported close by at the foot of the crags.
are known for their wood, with that of Ochroma ( balsa ) being known for its lightness, and that of Tilia ( lime, linden, or basswood ) as a popular wood for carving.
Mint leaves and lime wedges are used to garnish the glass.
There are several theories behind the origin of the name Mojito ; one such theory holds that name relates to mojo, a Cuban seasoning made from lime and used to flavour dishes.
Fillers are usually cheap and inert materials, such as diatomaceous earth, talc, lime, barytes, clay, etc.
Popular flavors are salt, lime, habanero, ' Chile y Limón ' and cheese.
More exotic flavors are Thai sweet chili, roast pork & creamy mustard sauce, lime and Thai spices, chicken with Italian herbs, sea salt and cracked black pepper, turkey & bacon, caramelized onion & sweet balsamic vinegar, stilton & cranberry, mango chili, and special flavors such as American Cheeseburger and English Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pud.
Kaffir lime leaves are frequently combined with garlic ( krathiam ), galangal ( kha ), lemongrass ( takhrai ) and / or Thai lemon basil ( maenglak ), turmeric ( khamin ) and / or fingerroot ( krachai ), blended together with liberal amounts of various chillies to make curry paste.
Besides kaffir lime leaves, several other tree leaves are use in Thai cuisine such as cha-om, the young feathery leaves of the Acacia pennata tree, used cooked in omelettes, soups and curries and raw in salads of the Northern Thai cuisine.
Equal-sized shots of tequila and sangrita are sipped alternately, without salt or lime.
Magnesium carbonate and iron oxides with silica crystallize as olivine or enstatite, or with alumina and lime form the complex ferro-magnesian silicates of which the pyroxenes, amphiboles, and biotites are the chief.
It is uncertain whether the calcium ions stored in the syncytium are related to the lime skeletons of many cnidarians.
Skeletal elements are also deployed in some specialized ways, such as the " Aristotle's lantern " of sea urchins, crinoids ' stalks, and the supportive " lime ring " of sea cucumbers.
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