Question

Two farmers Dinesh and Sagar approached the agricultural office complaining about
low yield. After testing the soil, the field officer advised Dinesh to treat the soil with
quick lime. Sagar was advised to treat his farm with organic matter.
a.Can You predict the reason for two different pieces of advice given?
b. For the following descriptions given below, identify each property as that of an acid
or a base or both.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Uses: Quicklime has a wide range of uses, including in the production of iron and steel, paper and pulp production, treatment of water and flue gases and in the mining industry. For the iron and steel industry, we also supply different fractions of both reactive shaft furnace-burnt and hard-burnt rotary kiln lime.