calces
Americannoun
noun
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Its calces are white when imperfect, but black, or dark green, when perfect.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Pure air contained in the calces of metals, as minium, manganese, calamy, ochre 166 Fable of Proserpine an antient chemical emblem 178 Diving balloons supplied with pure air from minium.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
But Cavendish instituted a series of experiments which proved that no fixed air could be obtained from metallic calces.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Now they triumphantly asked, Why, when metals dissolve in diluted vitriolic or muriatic acid with evolution of inflammable air, are calces of these metals produced?
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
Absorption is increased by the calces or solutions of mercury, lead, zinc, copper, iron, externally applied; and by arsenic, and by sulphur, and by the application of bitter vegetables in fine powder.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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