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Quicklime is quick (that is, alive, as in the quick and the dead) because it is anhydrous (Greek for unwatered) and soaks up water with a vengeance to make slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2, from CaO + H2O), which is what makes quicklime so useful as the binding agent in mortar, cement, and concrete.
The symbol for "pharmacy" is a mortar and pestle.
The word has several meanings, including “a heap of stuff,” such as a heap of grapes, a heap of mortar, a heap of something, but it also means a lump of sugar.
There is also a compound called wall saltpeter because it can leach out of the mortar between the bricks of damp walls: calcium nitrate (CaNO3).
My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.