heavy brown liquid first prepared by the French chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt. Cadet's liquid is highly toxic, smells strongly of garlic, and spontaneously bursts into flame when expos [..]

an older name for the common zinc ore calamine (q.v.); also applied to a sublimed zinc oxide and to a cobalt ore. (The element now called cadmium is often found associated with zinc.) [Agricola] calam [..]

calcium oxide, CaO (lime, quicklime). [Black, Lavoisier] caustic ...: calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2 (slaked lime) mild ...: calcium carbonate, CaCO3 (chalk, carbonate of lime, cream of lime).

James Kier's name for what we call carbon dioxide, CO2 (fixed air) [Kier]

See calx.

formation of a calx, i.e., oxidation of a metal, often by roasting. [Bacon, Black; Lavoisier 1, 2, & 3; Rey] calomel: mercury(I) chloride, Hg2Cl2.

a postulated elastic fluid associated with heat. [Avogadro, Davy, Dalton, Lavoisier, et al.]

a powdery solid formed by roasting a metal or mineral, most often a metal oxide. [Lavoisier 1, Rey, Stahl] Sometimes used for a particular calx, namely lime. carbolic acid: phenol, C6H5OH.

formerly referred to carbon dioxide, CO2 (fixed air) [Dalton; but also Arrhenius, Maxwell, Mendeleev, Rutherford, J. J. Thomson et al.]

carbon monoxide, CO [Dalton, Gay-Lussac, Maxwell, Ramsay, T. Thomson et al.]