Noun: calx
| Singular | calx |
| Plural | calces; calxes |
Sample Sentences
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[S]ome ladies apply to what are termed coſmetics under various names, which crowd the newspapers. Of theſe the white has deſtroyed the health of thouſands; a calx, or magiſtery, of biſmuth is ſuppoſed to be ſold in the ſhops for this purpoſe; but it is either, I am informed, in part or entirely white lead or ceruffa. […] The real calx of biſmuth would probably have the ſame ill effect. [1796, Erasmus Darwin, “[Class III. Diseases of Volition.] Ordo I. Increased Volition. Genus II. With Increased Actions of the Organs of Sense.”, in Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life, volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, paragraph 12, page 375:]
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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. [2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, page 179:]
Nouns inflected like calx
transition matrix,
territorial matrix,
enterothorax,
anthelix,
Hankel matrix,
Doctrix,
transformation matrix,
dot matrix,
skew-symmetric matrix,
doctrix,
subjugatrix,
degenerate matrix,
generatrix,
administratrix,
mediatrix,
aviatrix,
antihelix,
adjacency matrix,
incidence matrix,
editrix, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk. See: Latin Nouns '
calx'.