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Meanings of calx in English
A white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide.
Synonyms
Examples for "lime"
Examples for "lime"
1
Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
2
Why, it is our best friend in the world; it is lime.
3
Turnip: phosphates, thirteen; potash, thirty-nine; soda, five; lime, ten; sulphuric acid, fourteen.
4
But we have blood in our veins and lime in our bones.
5
He squeezed some juice from the lime slice floating in the glass.
1
The manure contains ammonia in form of salts, easily decomposed by quicklime
2
They were then to be placed in a sack filled with quicklime.
3
The brown lumps resolved into quicklime bags, stacked beside the back doors.
4
Undaunted, he next tried the experiment of mixing quicklime with pure gum.
5
As a flux it is used either as limestone or as quicklime.
1
Thus lime ( calcium oxide) is made by strongly heating calcium carbonate:
2
In modern manufacturing processes, sodium carbonate and calcium oxide are usually added to the base silica.
3
The precipitate of calcium oxalate may be converted into calcium oxide by ignition without previous drying.
4
Hitherto, for the sake of simplicity, the by-product in the preparation of acetylene has been described as calcium oxide or quicklime.
5
As the calcium oxide absorbs moisture from the air, it must (after cooling) be weighed as rapidly as possible.
1
This power is owing, no doubt, to the freshly calcined lime.
2
The Company manufactures and distributes Ordinary Portland Cement, Sulphate Resistant Portland Cement, Portland Pulverized Fuel Ash Cement and Hydrated and Calcined Lime.
1
So all over the ground about the plants sprinkle unslaked lime.
2
The white of egg, with unslaked lime, has been known to give immediate relief.
3
Lime Water.-Intoan earthen jar containing hot water stir a handful of fresh unslaked lime.
4
For an alkaline dentifrice, there is nothing better than lime-water, made from coarse, unslaked lime.
5
Boiling water, pitch and oil, molten lead, and unslaked lime, were poured upon them every moment.
1
He burnt lime, dragged timber, and tugged at the oar.
2
First, quicklime, which is also called burnt lime, caustic lime, builders' lime, rock lime, and unslaked lime.
3
The contents of the husk pits might advantageously be mixed up with the burnt lime, when a sufficiency of it has been saved.
4
The Samuel process (experiment 20) consisted in the injection, first, of a solution of sulphate of iron, and afterward of common burnt lime.
Usage of calx in English
1
It cannot be doubted that lime (coctilis calx), which is snow-white and lighter than sponge, is useful for the mightiest buildings.
2
In this connection Lavoisier says: We have, therefore, laid aside the expression metallic calx altogether, and have substituted in its place the word oxide.
3
From the melted ore, in this subterranean region of infernal aspect, is produced a calx, or cinder, of which there is an enormous mountain.
Frequent collocations
Calx through the time