chaux vive
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
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chaux vive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c... Pronounced \ʃo viv\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chaux vive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃo viv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for chaux vive is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃo viv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c...".
No misspelling variants are generated for chaux vive in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaux vive, spelled C-H-A-U-X- -V-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c’est à dire en hydroxyde de calcium (Ca(OH)₂). Si on la laisse à l’air libre elle se combine au gaz carbonique (CO₂) et se retransforme en calcaire (CaCO₃).
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