How To Use Calx In A Sentence
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When oxygen reacted with metals to form calxes, caloric was released, and in consequence the oxygen became dense and heavy.
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The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
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Other common names by which the compound is known include burnt lime, unslaked lime, fluxing lime, and calx.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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
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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
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The term caliche is Spanish and is originally from the Latin calx, meaning lime.
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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.
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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.
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-- Lead, or any other metal except gold or silver, is calcined in the air; the metal loses its characteristic properties, and is changed into a powdery substance, a kind of cinder or calx.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
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Boyle knew the tin gained weight as the calx was formed.
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He proposed towards the end of that year that metals take up air when calcined, and that the calx releases this fixed air when reduced back to metals with the agency of charcoal and heat.
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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.
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This idea of the production of nodules of flint in chalk-beds is countenanced from the iron which generally appears as these flints become decomposed by the air; which by uniting with the iron in their composition reduces it from a vitrescent state to that of calx, and thus renders it visible.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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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
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The reason a metal formed when its calx was heated with charcoal was therefore because the phlogiston left the charcoal and united with the calx.
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The calx combines with a flux containing phlogiston-rich materials.
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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.
The Cherokee Physician, or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor; Comprising a Brief View of Anatomy, With General Rules for Preserving Health without the Use of Medicines. The Diseases of the U. States, with Their Symptom
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A calx is a smartstone, a pebble used for calculating.
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When metals were calcined, the terra pinguis escaped, leaving behind a metallic calx (what we today call an oxide).
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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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