gas-lime

A substance such as gas-lime, unless submitted to the action of the atmosphere for some time, would also have a bad effect in checking nitrification, owing to the poisonous sulphur compounds it contains.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Another remedy is to mix weathered gas-lime freely with the soil.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

But in bad cases it will be necessary to resort to gas-lime, which poisons the pupæ and eventually benefits the soil, although in the season immediately following its use crops may be less satisfactory than usual.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Mr. Murdock's grandson informs us that it was recently re-patented and was the cause of a lawsuit, and that Hislop's patent for revivifying gas-lime would have been an infringement, if it had not expired.

Men of Invention and Industry Samuel Smiles 1858