calx
Americannoun
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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 manganese is used in making glass; the glass destroying the colour of that of the other materials, and thereby making the whole mass transparent.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
"Now," said Priestley, "when a metal burns phlogiston rushes out of it; if I restore this phlogiston to the metallic calx, I shall convert it back into the metal."
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
The calx of acid is used in a variety of the arts, especially in the manufactory of glass.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
But at a later time it was proved that iron was also produced by heating the calx of iron with carbon.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
It is soluble in the vitriolic or marine acids, and reduced to a yellow calx by nitrous acid or aqua regia.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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
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
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
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)
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 Priestley, Joseph
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