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Calx
Calx meaning
The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation). | In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.
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Example sentences (8)
A number of other brokerages have also issued reports on CALX.
And Blue Calx is one of the dreamiest tracks on the double album – an airy melody underpinned by a gentle rhythm that could lull even the most defiant insomniac to sleep.
After returning from Paris, Priestley took up once again his investigation of the air from mercury calx.
Calx was later replaced by oxyd.
Etymology Calcite is derived from the German Calcit, a term coined in the 19th century from the Latin word for lime, calx (genitive calcis) with the suffix -ite used to name minerals.
In October the English chemist Joseph Priestley visited Paris, where he met Lavoisier and told him of the air which he had produced by heating the red calx of mercury with a burning glass and which had supported combustion with extreme vigor.
When air had become completely phlogisticated it would no longer serve to support combustion of any material, nor would a metal heated in it yield a calx; nor could phlogisticated air support life.
When the oxide was heated with a substance rich in phlogiston, such as charcoal, the calx again took up phlogiston and regenerated the metal.