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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And they answered as triumphantly, Because these metals lose phlogiston by this process, and we know that a calx is a metal deprived of its phlogiston.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
The solution of fixed alkali dissolves the calx of arsenic, and by means of heat a brown tenacious mass is produced, and having also a disagreeable smell, it is called liver of arsenic.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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 Priestley, Joseph
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 Priestley, Joseph
What is commonly called arsenic is the calx of a semi-metal called the regulus of arsenic.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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
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
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
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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