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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word calx? Here are some examples.
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Sentence Examples
| When metals were calcined, the terra pinguis escaped, leaving behind a metallic calx. |
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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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| 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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Examples from Classical Literature
| It was observed very early, that when a metal was converted into a calx, its weight was increased. |
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| Enamels are made of several colours by the addition of this or that metalline calx. |
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| The calx of cobalt is of a deep blue colour, which, when fused, makes the blue glass called smalt. |
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| Heat recovers the pure air, and the mercury, leaving the calx of the impure metal. |
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| The calx of tin resists fusion more than that of any other metal, which makes it useful in making an opaque white enamel. |
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| By long standing, or the addition of water, the calx of tin is precipitated from the solution. |
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| This calx is soluble in about eighty times its weight of cold water, or in fifteen times its weight of boiling water. |
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| The calx of acid is used in a variety of the arts, especially in the manufactory of glass. |
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| Pound this Regulus, and mix it with half its weight of an antimonial calx as perfectly desulphurated as possible. |
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| It is soluble in the vitriolic or marine acids, and reduced to a yellow calx by nitrous acid or aqua regia. |
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| It was mentioned by Libavius, who named it calx plumb dulcis. |
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