calx
Americannoun
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calxes,
plural
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calces
plural
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the oxide or ashy substance that remains after metals, minerals, etc., have been thoroughly roasted or burned.
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lime.
noun
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the powdery metallic oxide formed when an ore or mineral is roasted
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another name for calcium oxide
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anatomy the heel
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Etymology
Origin of calx
1350–1400; late Middle English < Latin: lime; replacing Middle English cals < Old French < Latin
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The calx of iron gives a green colour to glass.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Thus when phlogisticated alkali is poured into a solution of green vitriol, the acid of the vitriol unites with the alkali, while the phlogiston joining the calx of iron makes Prussian blue.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
In fact, we seem fast coming to regard as sober truth the ancient adage, apparently so extravagant—Omnis calx e vermibus; omne ferrum e vermibus; omnis silex e vermibus.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
And they answered as triumphantly, Because these metals lose phlogiston by this process, and we know that a calx is a metal deprived of its phlogiston.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
Its calx is soluble in water, like that of arsenic.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Oils dissolve the calces of lead, which, by this means, is the basis of paints, plaisters, &c.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Absorption is increased by the calces or solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, externally applied; and by arsenic, and by sulphur, and by the application of bitter vegetables in fine powder.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
One part of either of these calces is put to ten, sixteen, or twenty parts of the flux, according to the depth of colour required.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
The third refers to the great quantity of pure air contained in the calces of metals.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
These calces therefore, when mixed with the enamel flux, are melted in crucibles, once or oftener, and the deep coloured opake glass, thence resulting, is ground into unpalpable powder, and used for enamel.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
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