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calx

WordNet
  1. (n) calx
    a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Calx
    Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
  2. Calx
    (Chem) Quicklime.
  3. Calx
    (Chem) 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) calx
    Lime or chalk.
  2. (n) calx
    The ashy substance which remains after metals, minerals, etc., have been calcined. Metallic calxes are now generally called oxids.
  3. (n) calx
    Broken and refuse glass, which is restored to the pots.
  4. (n) calx
    In anatomy, the heel: commonly used in the Latin genitive (calcis), as in os calcis, the heel-bone or calcaneum.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Calx
    kalks chalk or lime: the substance of a metal or mineral which remains after being subjected to violent heat
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. Calx, calcis,. limestone; cf. Gr. gravel. , , pebble, Skr. gravel, Ir. carraic, rock Gael. carraig, W. careg, stone. Cf. Chalk

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. calx, lime.

Usage in literature

I sent you of his faeces there calcined: Out of that calx, I have won the salt of mercury. "The Alchemist" by Ben Jonson

To bring Gold into calx. "The Book Of Quinte Essence Or The Fifth Being (1889)" by Unknown

He thought they were "compounded" of a certain earth, or calx, and phlogiston. "Priestley in America" by Edgar F. Smith

Calx: the distal end of the tibia; the curving basal portion of the first tarsal joint. "Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology" by John. B. Smith

As soon as the calx began to glow, the bladder became expanded, and quicksilver rose into the neck. "Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2" by Carl Wilhelm Scheele

On the parts not excoriated mercurial ointment, made of one part of white calx of mercury and six of hogs' fat. "Zoonomia, Vol. II" by Erasmus Darwin

Again, iron, by its fermentation with brimstone and water, is evidently reduced to a calx, so that phlogiston must have escaped from it. "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air" by Joseph Priestley

All transparent enamels are made opaque by the addition of calx, which is a mixture of tin and lead calcined. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3" by Various

United with the calx of lead, it is used in painting. "Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry" by Joseph Priestley

It was very generally said that fixed air was produced during the calcination of metals, and was absorbed by the calx. "Heroes of Science" by M. M. Pattison Muir