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This decantation and pouring on continue so long till all the _Calx_ of _Saturn_ be dissolved, then take all the dissolved _Saturn_, set it in a Bath, evaporate the Vinegar by a small fire, the _Saturn_ will become a powder or lump.
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Stopple again over it, make the Bath no hotter than that you may well endure your hand therein, that is, lukewarm; so let it stand fourteen days and nights, then decant that which is clear into another Stone-pot, poure other distilled Vinegar upon the _Calx_ which is not well dissolved, mix them well together, set it 14 days in the Bath, again decant it, and poure other Vinegar upon it as before.
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Calx of Sol, prepared of Gold, in the Vulgar manner, and after the third Cohobation, it sublimed the
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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Ounces calcined according to Art, pour the Oil upon the _Calx_ of
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Calva: a skull-cap: = epicranium, q.v. Calx: the distal end of the tibia; the curving basal portion of the first tarsal joint.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Calx sulphurata, one-tenth to one-fourth grain every two or three hours, appears, in some instances, to have a beneficial effect.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Calx sulphurata in pill form, one-tenth to one-fourth grain four or five times daily, is said, acts well in the pustular variety.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Thus the _Calx_ of Silver tinges the Glass on which it is anneal'd with a lovely Yellow, or Gold colour, &c.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Spirit, there came over store of Red Fumes, which by that Colour, by their peculiar stinke, and by their Sourness, manifested themselves to be, Nitrous Spirits; and that the remaining Calx continu'd Copper, I suppose you'l easily beleeve.
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Homogeneous, may be a very compounded Body: or at least that by the action of the Distill'd Vinager and the Saturnine Calx one upon another, part of the Liquor may be so alter'd as to be transmuted from an Acid Spirit into an Oyle.
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