Crossword-Solution: CALCES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

How many complaints of similar treatment have I heard in different parts of the Eastern world! and how little can one realise them without having actually experienced the evil! For the future I shall never see a "nigger" squatting away half a dozen mortal hours in a broiling sun patiently waiting for something or for some one, without a lively remembrance of my own cooling of the calces at the custom-house of Alexandria.

The calces were long known to weigh much more than the metallic bodies before calcination, insomuch that 100 pounds of lead will produce 112 pounds of minium; the ore of manganese, which is always found near the surface of the earth, is replete with pure air, which is now used for the purpose of bleaching.

Pure air contained in the calces of metals, as minium, manganese, calamy, ochre 166 Fable of Proserpine an antient chemical emblem 178 Diving balloons supplied with pure air from minium.

Calces of cobalt and of copper differ very materially from those above mentioned in their application for colouring enamels.

These calces therefore, when mixed with the enamel flux, are melted in crucibles, once or oftener, and the deep coloured opake glass, thence resulting, is ground into unpalpable powder, and used for enamel.