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calx

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4 lettersPronunciation /kælks/Part of speech nounSorted aclxStarts with CEnds with X0 clues
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  1. a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

Word origin

From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk.

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  • The regeneration of mercury from its calx, without addition of any other substance, had been a chief example for anti-phlogiston, but that could, as Kirwan showed, be explained in a way consistent with phlogiston theory.

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