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Definition of Calxes
1. calx [n] - See also: calx
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calxes
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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