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because they could not separate it which required electricity which wasn't in tuse as they didn't know how to harness it.

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Lime (quick lime) is basically CaO. Slaked lime is Ca(OH)2 and thus both are made up of more than 1 element and are thus classed as compounds.

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Because in his time, scientists could not separate the elements within lime to show that it was a compound, so he had no way of telling.

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