Translation for "cal viva" to english

Cal viva

noun

• quicklime

Translation examples

quicklime noun

Lo tratas con cal viva.
Treat it with quicklime.

Nafta y cal viva, creo…
Just naphtha and quicklime, I think …

El producto final de la calcinación era la cal viva.
The end product of this burning was quicklime.

Habla de veneno, y de un hombre con un látigo, y de cal viva.
She talks of poison, and a man with a scourge, and quicklime.

Habían pintado el exterior con cal viva y tinte rosa.
They’d whitewashed the exterior with quicklime, tinted it pink.

Sin duda, lo ha hecho arrojar, como un perro, en la cal viva.
He certainly had it thrown into quicklime like a dog.

Cubre con cal viva el cadáver de la fe judía. —¿Y la cristiana?
Cover the body of the Jewish faith with quicklime.' 'And the Christian faith?'

—Arlette solía echarle cal viva constantemente —expliqué—.
“Arlette used to put the quicklime to it pretty constantly,” I said.

En los tejados, el calor era como una pared en la cual uno estuviera embutido dentro de cal viva.
On the roofs the heat was like a wall, into which one was immediately mortared with quicklime.

Los muertos estaban cubiertos de cal viva, pero todavía era fácil ver lo que había ocurrido.
The bodies were in quicklime, but it was still easy to see what had happened.