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calcic

American  
[kal-sik] / ˈkæl sɪk /

adjective

  1. pertaining to or containing lime or calcium.


calcic British  
/ ˈkælsɪk /

adjective

  1. of, containing, or concerned with lime or calcium

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Etymology

Origin of calcic

First recorded in 1870–75; calc- + -ic

Example Sentences

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Precipitates from ferric sulphate, unlike calcic compounds, do not subsequently enter into putrefaction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

Like Lepidoderma tigrinum, but has different calcic crystals.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Hygroscopic water 3.73 Volatile constituents 45.49 Coke Fixed carbon 48.20 Ash Silica 12 Aluminic 2.46 Ferric, calcic Magnesic Chloric Sulphuric acids, etc.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

Like albumin also this calcic solution is coagulated by heat; a solution of a calcic salt of a volatile acid on heating forms a precipitate which has all the appearance of albumin coagulated by heat.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

In 1839, Link obtained spherical granulations by the precipitation of calcic or plumbic solutions by potash, soda, or carbonic acid.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane