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 Translation for 'chlorinated lime' from English to Slovak
SYNO bleaching powder | chloride of lime | chlorinated lime
chém.
chlórové vápno {n}
chlorinated lime
chém.
chlórovaný {adj} {past-p}
chlorinated
chém.
chlórový {adj}
chlorinated
bot.
lipa {f}
lime
bot.gastr.
limetka {f}
lime
potr.
lipový med {m}
lime honey
bot.T
lipa {f}
lime tree
bot.T
lipa {f} malolistá [Tilia cordata]
small-leaved lime
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Usage Examples English
  • Ignaz Semmelweis discovered in 1847 that hand-washing with a solution of chlorinated lime reduced the incidence of fatal childbed fever tenfold in maternity institutions.
  • William Soper also used chlorinated lime to treat the sewage produced by typhoid patients in 1879.
  • This method was commonly used to produce hypochlorite solutions for use as a hospital antiseptic that was sold after World War I under the names "Eusol", an abbreviation for Edinburgh University Solution Of (chlorinated) Lime – a reference to the university's pathology department, where it was developed.
  • In August 1955, reserve aircrews delivered chlorinated lime to New England for purifying the drinking water after an outbreak of typhoid fever, and in October reservists delivered tons of food and clothing to flood-stricken Tampico, Mexico, in the aftermath of Hurricane Janice.
  • He proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital's First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors' wards had three times the mortality of midwives' wards.

  • Semmelweis began experimenting with various cleansing agents and, from May 1847, ordered all doctors and students working in the First Division wash their hands in chlorinated lime solution before starting ward work, and later before each vaginal examination.
  • The chemical industry developed rapidly. In 1927, Degussa's sodium, chlorine and chlorinated lime plant was built in Knapsack. The Martinswerk in Bergheim produced aluminum oxide and alumina hydrate.
  • Chlorine, used for sanitation and the chlorination of drinking water, was sold as chlorinated lime and chlorobenzene, which was an ingredient for an explosive used in World War I.
  • Labarraque's chlorinated lime and soda solutions had been advocated in 1828 to prevent infection (called "contagious infection", and presumed to be transmitted by "miasmas") and also to treat putrefaction of existing wounds, including septic wounds.
  • In what may have been one of the first attempts to use chlorine, William Soper used chlorinated lime to treat the sewage produced by typhoid patients in 1879.

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