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Very few of us, however, can say why the symbol for sodium is Na, why quicklime should remind us of a Brooklyn journalist preacher, or what the secret ingredient in a popular variety of ersatz diamond has to do with a little town in the southern end of Sweden and near the end of the alphabet.
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.