Lime is omnipresent. Without us noticing, it meets our daily needs a thousand-fold. Let's consider for a moment the role that lime fulfils in our modern life:
Already in the early morning we use numerous applications containing lime: in the ceramic glazes of the bathroom, in tooth paste, soaps, skin creams and innumerable pharmaceutical and cosmetic products.
Many foodstuffs, drinks and tobacco are produced with lime. The citric acid, which is just as important for lemonades as for cleaning agents, can be preserved from the citrus fruits with the assistance of lime. And also sugar cannot be preserved without lime: In the raw liqueur of sugar beet lime binds proteins and impurities.
In the chemical industry lime is used in the production of multivalent alcohols, which are included in drugs, in adhesives, colors and lacquers.
Soda, a modified sodium carbonate, is an important raw material of modern industry, which is manufactured with the help of lime. Glass and in addition, bleaching agent and detergents, colours and tannery products are examples, which do not only need lime for their production, but also soda.
Paper, plastics, rubber articles; neutraliser, active substance, enhancer - the application areas and functions of lime are almost endless. As natural limestone, as burned calcium oxide, as slaked calcium hydroxide or as chemically precipitated calcium carbonate: Our life consists of lime and contains a lot of ideas to create something from lime.