calces
Americannoun
noun
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Its calces are white when imperfect, but black, or dark green, when perfect.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Up to this time metallic calces, and for the most part alkalis and earths also, had been regarded as elementary substances.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Pure air contained in the calces of metals, as minium, manganese, calamy, ochre 166 Fable of Proserpine an antient chemical emblem 178 Diving balloons supplied with pure air from minium.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Darwin, Erasmus
Solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, arsenic; or metallic calces applied in dry powder, as cerussa, lapis calaminaris.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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