Calcium Hydroxide AR Grade is used in a wide variety of traditional & emerging applications, because of its chemical & physical properties.
Calcium hydroxide is commonly used to prepare lime mortar. One significant application of calcium hydroxide is as a flocculant, in water and sewage treatment. It forms a fluffy charged solid that aids in the removal of smaller particles from water, resulting in a clearer product.
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It is noteworthy that CaO is also a separate mineral species, named lime. A pyrometamorphic mineral, it is rare, as it is unstable in moist air quickly turning into portlandite, Ca(OH)2.