Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Composed of, containing, derived from, or relating to calcium or lime.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to lime; containing calcium: as, calcic chlorid, or chlorid of calcium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from
calcium orlime
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective derived from or containing calcium or lime
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Examples
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It's quite astounding to read through the recipes and try to imagine making some of these creations -- each one has six or eight separate components, and each component calls for ingredients such as calcic, lecite or xantana.
Eating L.A. 2008
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GABBRO: A black,course-grained,intrusive igneous rock,composed of calcic feldspars and pryoxene.
Think Progress » Molly Ivins hospitalized in cancer battle. 2007
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GABBRO: A black,course-grained,intrusive igneous rock,composed of calcic feldspars and pryoxene.
Think Progress » Molly Ivins hospitalized in cancer battle. 2007
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Caliche, or a calcic horizon, is common in arid and semiarid regions. 17 It is a hard, whitish alkaline layer resembling limestone and can be many meters thick.
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Since the early history of beet sugar making, it has been noticed that calcic salts render graining in the pan most tedious; hence repeated efforts to reduce to a minimum percentage the use of lime during defecation.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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Certain citrates have a retarding influence upon calcic sulphates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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The following selection will be found sufficient for his purpose: A set of the chief varieties of uric acid, calcic oxalate, and triple phosphate; the urates and oxalurates; urea nitrate, calcic hippurate and carbonate, hippuric acid, cystin, well mounted "casts" of the _tubili uriniferi_, spermatozoa, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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Experiments to determine the action of lime upon soils apparently prove that it does not matter in what form calcic salts are employed; their effect, in all cases, is to increase the yield of roots to the acre.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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The explanation offered to account for the gradually increasing insolubility of sulphate of lime on heating, is, that the hydrate, in which condition it exists in solution, is partially decomposed, anhydrous calcic sulphate being formed, the dehydration becoming more and more complete as the temperature rises.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 Various
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Recent observations relating to the action of soda upon calcic sulphates, calcic glucates, etc., are most important.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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