Calcium
['kælsɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals.
錄入:玛丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
編輯:厄休拉
解釋/意思:
n. the metal present in chalk stucco and other compounds of lime.—adjs. Cal′cic containing calcium; Cal′cific calcifying or calcified.—v.i. Cal′cificā′tion the process of calcifying a changing into lime.—adjs. Cal′ciform like chalk pebbly; Calcif′ugous avoiding limestone.—v.t. and v.i. Cal′cify to make calcic: to turn into bony tissue.—adjs. Calcig′enous forming lime; Calcig′erous containing lime.—n. Cal′cimine a white or tinted wash for ceilings walls &c. consisting of whiting with glue &c.—v.t. to wash with such.—adj. Cal′cinable capable of being calcined.—n. Calcinā′tion.—v.t. Cal′cine or Calcine′ to reduce to a calx or chalky powder by the action of heat to burn to ashes.—v.i. to become a calx or powder by heat.—ns. Cal′cite native calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime—also called Calcā′reous spar and Calc′spar; Calc′-sin′ter Calc′-tuff Tra′vertin a porous deposit from springs or rivers which in flowing through limestone rocks have become charged with calcium carbonate.
手打:撒迪厄斯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
An earthly light that brightens even the stars.
杰拉尔德編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- While the arcs with plain carbons are bluish-white, those with carbons containing calcium fluoride have a notable golden glow. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The cheapness of calcium carbide has made it possible for the isolated farmhouse to discard oil lamps and to have a private gas system. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The oven filled with calcium carbide is then electrically heated with a carbon rod running through the center. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When the temperature is about as hot as that of molten iron the pure nitrogen gas from the liquid air plant is pumped in and allowed to act on the calcium carbide for about a day and a half. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- When the hard, gray crystals of calcium carbide are put in water, they give off acetylene, a colorless gas which burns with a brilliant white flame. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- When nitrogen gas is in contact with heated calcium carbide, a reaction takes place which results in the formation of calcium nitride, a compound suitable for enriching the soil. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The substances which make water hard are calcium and magnesium salts. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The trough battery was used by Sir Humphry Davy in his series of great experiments--1806-1808--in which he isolated the metallic bases, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Washing soda combines with calcium and magnesium and prevents them from uniting with soap. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In 1892 it was discovered that lime and coal fused together in the intense heat of the electric furnace formed a crystalline, metallic-looking substance called calcium carbide. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A number of receptacles containing charges of calcium carbide are made to successively receive a regulated quantity of water, the gas being collected in a rising and falling holder. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Acetylene Gas from Calcium Carbide by Willson. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Many other chemicals can be used, however, for making the fluorescing screen, such as the sulphides of calcium, barium and strontium. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is now made commercially by the mutual decomposition of water and calcium carbide, the latter giving off, when brought in contact with the water, acetylene gas, which rises in bubbles. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- On the inside of this is spread a layer of tungstate of calcium. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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