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slake

1. To add water to quicklime, thereby hydrating it and forming lime putty.

2. To crumble or disintegrate on exposure to air or water.

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Slake Durability Test and Fragment Size Distribution Analysis.

Weathering influence on properties of siltstones from Istria, Croatia

For the assessment of other properties, like impact strength index (ISI), slake durability index (SDI) and P-wave velocity, Schmidt hammer rebound number is considered as one of the most important parameter.

Prediction of durability and strength from Schmidt rebound hammer number for limestone rocks from Salt Range, Pakistan

But if Turner was in the business of creating a vision of beauty, then three years earlier the Slake had been the scene of a sight which filled people with horror.

Exhibition provides glimpse of an enigmatic landscape

The powerful images led him to produce a set of canvasses, in oils and acrylics, and photographs which are on show at Bede's World in Jarrow until August 19 under the title: The River and the Slake.

Reverside renaissance

From Germany, South America, and other locales, he brought back what he thought would slake the media's curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

Martin Munkacsi: Deichtorhallen Hamburg

An extra THREE MILLION pints of beer will help slake the nation's thirst - washing down around FIVE MILLION sausages.

BLISSTERING! Britain basks in heatwave as summer finally arrives It's set for a steamy 89F today

But there's always the all-weather to slake the non-jumps punter's thirst, and it's even more fun now since the introduction of a Polytrack surface at Wolverhampton.

Books: Substance makes up for lack of style; The All-Weather Guide Simon Mapletoft (Simon Mapletoft Racing, pounds 13)

Brock is still more attack dog than thinker, so his book provides only a smattering of understanding--but plenty of opportunities to slake partisan bloodlust.

Right-wingers redux: are we a conservative nation? Does it matter?

Someone had left a beer bottle next to the headstone, perhaps as an offering to slake the nameless prospector's thirst.

GHOST TOWN WITH THE MOST FOUR-WHEEL EXCURSION TO BODIE NOT GHASTLY, BUT GOLDEN

There is an opportunity to slake your claim and be part of something.

Ireland is modern

Helene had returned to Arkansas to bury her Aunt Annie b, the woman who had raised her, but that trip would take her into a maze of memories and revelations that would both slake her thirst to know and raise even more questions.

Knee-Deep in Wonder

Chuck's Boat and Drive, under third generation president Mark Slake, continues to replace engines for booming tugs still in service.