How To Use calx In A Sentence
- When oxygen reacted with metals to form calxes, caloric was released, and in consequence the oxygen became dense and heavy.
- The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime. WN.com - Business News
- Other common names by which the compound is known include burnt lime, unslaked lime, fluxing lime, and calx.
- 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.
- Then a French pharmacist named Pierre Bayen pointed out to Lavoisier that calx of mercury, which we would now call mercuric oxide, can be converted to mercury simply by heating, without the need for phlogiston-rich charcoal.
- The name calcite (Lat. _calx_, _calcis_, meaning burnt lime) is of comparatively recent origin, and was first applied, in 1836, to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- As one grain of turpeth mineral (vitriolic calx of mercury) mixed with ten grains of fine sugar. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- 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
- The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime. WN.com - Business News
- The residue may remain as a powdery substance (a calx), in which case the process of roasting is termed calcination; or it may be a pasty mass or liquid. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
