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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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 M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
In a degree of heat in which it would rise easily in vapour, mercury imbibes pure air, and becomes a red calx, called precipitate per se.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
The residuum consists of revived mercury, with some regulus and calx of antimony.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Heat recovers the pure air, and the mercury, leaving the calx of the impure metal.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
The calx of iron, therefore, having the same effect with massicot, when treated in the same manner, appears to contain no more pure air than massicot does.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
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
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
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
Now they triumphantly asked, Why, when metals dissolve in diluted vitriolic or muriatic acid with evolution of inflammable air, are calces of these metals produced?
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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
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