Calcifuge
any plant incapable of thriving in calcareous soil.
noun
any plant that thrives in acid soils but not in lime-rich soils
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a white or tinted wash for walls, ceilings, etc. to wash or cover with calcimine. Historical Examples The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping Elizabeth Hale Gilman Science in the Kitchen. Mrs. E. E. Kellogg Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) […]
- Calcine
to convert into calx by heating or burning. to frit. to be converted into calx by heating or burning. material resulting from calcination; calx. Historical Examples A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer A Discovrse of Fire and Salt (A Discourse of Fire and […]
- Calcination
to convert into calx by heating or burning. to frit. to be converted into calx by heating or burning. material resulting from calcination; calx. Historical Examples Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. Pierre Joseph Macquer The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean Henri Fabre A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings Noah […]
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to convert into calx by heating or burning. to frit. to be converted into calx by heating or burning. material resulting from calcination; calx. Historical Examples Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. Pierre Joseph Macquer Changing Winds St. John G. Ervine Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States […]
- Calcined-baryta
baryta (def 1). Also called calcined baryta, barium oxide, barium monoxide, barium protoxide. a white or yellowish-white poisonous solid, BaO, highly reactive with water: used chiefly as a dehydrating agent and in the manufacture of glass. Also called caustic baryta, barium hydroxide, barium hydrate. the hydroxide, hydrated form of this compound, Ba(OH) 2 ⋅8H 2 […]