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 and the salts of this metal are occasionally used in medicine.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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 Joseph Priestley
By long standing, or the addition of water, the calx of tin is precipitated from the solution.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
He then showed by experiment that when calx of iron is heated with hydrogen, the hydrogen disappears and the metal iron is produced.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
When the calx of arsenic is distilled with sulphur, the vitriolic acid flies off, and a substance of a yellow colour, called orpiment, is produced.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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 M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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 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
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 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
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