[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

[Gary Halstead]

At 03:46 PM 5/10/01 -0400, thurman wrote:
>Thanks for the answer! I for one, would be happy to attend such a
>course, say,
>at Pennsic some year.  Aalchemy 101? BTW, since there is so much
>concentrated
>expertise online about calcium, can anyone say when calcium hydoxide
>(calcium
>carbide) first came into use?

You might want to take a look at: http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/  for a 
modern college course that covers a lot of the same ground (including the 
lime and lye bit).

Ranulf