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calx

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Noun — The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).

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

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