Definition of Calxes

1. Noun. (plural of calx) ¹

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Definition of Calxes

1. calx [n] - See also: calx

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calxes

calvering
calvers
calves
calves' feet
calves' liver
calvin cycle
calving
calving jack
calvings
calvinistical
calvish
calvities
calvity
calvous
calx
calxes (current term)
calycanthus
calycanthus family
calycanthuses
calycate
calyceal
calyces
calyciform
calyciform ending
calycinal
calycine
calycle
calycled
calycles
calycoid

Literary usage of Calxes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry by Pierre Joseph Macquer, Andrew Reid (1758)
"PROCESS V. S*o combine Fat Oils with Lead, and the calxes of Lead. ... but its calxes alfo : nay, ..."

2. American Druggist (1891)
"He explained the well-known phenomenon of the calxes of the metals weighing more ... Heating calxes of the metals with carbon, there resulted the metals. ..."

3. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"The effervescence which constantly takes place in every revivification of metallic calxes, that is to say whenever a metallic substance passes from the ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1781)
"Experiments relative ta the Vitrification of Animal and Vegetable Earth, mixed, in different proportion, with metallic calxes. By the fame. ..."

5. The Study of Chemical Composition: An Account of Its Method and Historical by Ida Freund (1904)
"It was of course well known, that metal calxes on being heated with carbon or with sulphur, that is with very combustible substances, regenerated the metals ..."

6. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"... combined with the metals during their calcination, and that the augmentation in weight of the metallic calxes was due to this cause. ..."

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