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2. Agricultural lime - Wikipedia

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   Agricultural lime, also called aglime, agricultural limestone, garden lime or liming, is a soil additive made from pulverized limestone or chalk. The primary active component is calcium carbonate . Additional chemicals vary depending on the mineral source and may include calcium oxide .

3. Liming (soil) - Wikipedia

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   Amelioration of soil structure leading to a reduction of mineralization by means of protecting soil organic carbon. Liming is known to ameliorate soil structure, as high Ca 2+ concentrations and high ionic strength in the soil solution enhance the flocculation of clay minerals and, in turn, form more stable soil aggregates. [9]

4. Lime - Wikipedia

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   Australian lime, a species of Citrus native to Australia and Papua New Guinea; Key lime, a citrus hybrid with a spherical fruit; Persian lime, a citrus fruit species of hybrid origin; Tilia, a genus of trees known in Britain as lime trees, lime-wood, basswood, or linden; Wild lime or Zanthoxylum fagara, a green fruit native to the Americas

5. Lime softening - Wikipedia

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   Lime softening (also known as lime buttering, lime-soda treatment, or Clark's process) [1] is a type of water treatment used for water softening, which uses the addition of limewater (calcium hydroxide) to remove hardness (deposits of calcium and magnesium salts) by precipitation.

6. Rubbertown, Louisville - Wikipedia

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   A company known as E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (later to become DuPont) was also contracted in 1941, but they built a Neoprene synthetic rubber plant. Later on in 1945, Union Carbide built a plant in the complex to manufacture butadiene from grain alcohol that was piped to Rubbertown from distilleries in Louisville.

7. Soil conditioner - Wikipedia

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   While adding a soil conditioner to crops or a garden can seem like a great way to get healthier plants, over-application of some amendments can cause ecological problems. For example, salts, nitrogen, metals and other nutrients that are present in many soil amendments are not productive when added in excess, and can actually be detrimental to ...