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Few chemical compounds touch as many parts of daily life as calcium oxide. Known for centuries as quicklime or burnt lime, this simple combination of calcium and oxygen quietly underpins the buildings we live in, the steel in our cars, the water we drink, and the crops we grow. It is produced on an enormous scale, with global annual output measured in hundreds of millions of tonnes, yet most people never see it directly because it is consumed within industrial processes. This article explains wh …