Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The crumbly residue left after a mineral or metal has been calcined or roasted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the heel: commonly used in the Latin genitive (calcis), as in
os calcis , the heel-bone or calcaneum. - noun Lime or chalk.
- noun The ashy substance which remains after metals, minerals, etc., have been calcined. Metallic calxes are now generally called
oxids . - noun Broken and refuse glass, which is restored to the pots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Quicklime.
- noun The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
- noun Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of
phlogiston . - noun the
oxide left aftercalcination of a metal. - noun
calcium oxide
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A calx is a smartstone, a pebble used for calculating.
Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981
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A calx is a smartstone, a pebble used for calculating.
Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981
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The theory thought of the re-formation of a metal from its calx, that is, the earthy substance which remains after combustion, as the combination of two things to produce one, apparently homogeneous, substance.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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Gravel is usually understood to mean calculi, (from the old word calx) a limestone, or little sand-like stones, which pass from the kidneys through the ureters into the bladder.
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Mr. Lavoifier found 9 parts natural gypfum to afford by diftillation 2 of water - f -, which agrees very nearly with my determination of that contained in the artificial; but fome forts of gypfum contain a mixture of mild calx, which is foreign to their conflitution, and therefore cffervefce with acids.
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This oxide was formerly termed a "calx," and has long been known to weigh more than the metal from which it was obtained.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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In this case no red sublimate arose as customarily takes place with that calx which is prepared by the acid of nitre.
Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2 Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1764
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The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
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The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
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The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
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