calces

American  

[kal-seez] / ˈkæl siz /

noun

1. a plural of calx.

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calces British  

/ ˈkælsiːz /

noun

1. a plural of calx

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Example Sentences

The third refers to the great quantity of pure air contained in the calces of metals.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

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

One part of either of these calces is put to ten, sixteen, or twenty parts of the flux, according to the depth of colour required.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

These calces therefore, when mixed with the enamel flux, are melted in crucibles, once or oftener, and the deep coloured opake glass, thence resulting, is ground into unpalpable powder, and used for enamel.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus