calcic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of calcic
Example Sentences
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Certain citrates have a retarding influence upon calcic sulphates.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
Forms occur, however, in which these outer calcic deposits are almost entirely wanting; the peridium becomes transparent, the capillitium visible from without.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
Cal′cify, to make calcic: to turn into bony tissue.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Recent observations relating to the action of soda upon calcic sulphates, calcic glucates, etc., are most important.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
By precipitating chloride of calcium with the carbonates of ammonium and other alkaline carbonates, he obtained small spheres which grew and were transformed into calcic rhombohedra.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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