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Rotary lime kiln (rust-colored horizontal tube at right) with preheater, Wyoming, 2010 Traditional lime kiln in Sri Lanka. A lime kiln is a kiln used for the calcination of limestone (calcium carbonate) to produce the form of lime called quicklime (calcium oxide). The chemical equation for this reaction is: CaCO 3 + heat → CaO + CO 2
House built in 1808, and 19th-century lime kiln. Peter Houghtaling Farm and Lime Kiln, West Coxsackie, New York, NRHP-listed; Powell–Trollinger Lime Kilns, at Catawba, Catawba County, North Carolina, NRHP-listed. Three lime kilns built about 1865, built into the side of a hill behind a solid stone wall, 20 to 30 feet high.
Lime Kiln Remains, Ipswich; Pipers Creek Lime Kilns; Raffan's Mill and Brick Bottle Kilns; There were a number of lime kilns at Wool Bay, South Australia. One kiln remains and was listed along with the jetty under the name of Wool Bay Lime Kiln & Jetty on the South Australian Heritage Register on 28 November 1985. There also are or were lime ...
The Olema Lime Kilns at Point Reyes National Seashore in California were built in 1850 on land leased from Mexican grantee Rafael Garcia by James A. Shorb and William F. Mercer, two San Francisco entrepreneurs. The kilns were reportedly fired only a few times, and have lain abandoned for some 140 years.
The Chatsworth Calera kiln was used for burning limestone in the making of lime for concrete, mortar, and whitewash, a step in the construction of bricks and tiles. The monument site now looks like a hole in the ground with walls of vitrified limestone and brick. The pit measures about fifteen feet deep and six and a half feet across.
Lime Kiln Valley AVA; Lime Kilns (Eureka, Utah) Lime Kilns (Lincoln, Rhode Island) Lime Rock, Rhode Island; Limekiln State Park; List of Michigan State Historic Sites;
Exterior from the West. Located on the east bank of Rock Creek, at the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the kilns produced lime for construction of the city of Washington, D.C. Built in 1864, by William H. Godey, the site originally included four wood-fired ovens that were used to make lime and plaster, from limestone.
Raffan's Mill and Brick Bottle Kilns is a heritage-listed lime kiln at Carlton Road, Portland, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1884 to 1895 by George Raffan and Alexander Currie. It is also known as Raffan's Mill and Brick Bottle Kilns Precinct, Portland Cement Works Site, Williwa Street Portland. The property is owned by Boral.