calcine
Americanverb (used with object)
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to convert into calx by heating or burning.
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to frit.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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(tr) to heat (a substance) so that it is oxidized, reduced, or loses water
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(intr) to oxidize as a result of heating
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of calcine
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin calcināre to heat, originally used by alchemists
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Then it turns into calcine bone that’s grayish white and brittle with no organic matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Filter this off, wash with hot water, dry, calcine, treat with a little nitric acid, ignite, and weigh as copper oxide, CuO.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
The process is as follows:—Weigh up 5 grams of the ore, and calcine thoroughly on a roasting dish in the muffle.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The mode of proceeding is to calcine the berry in a covered vessel, and well wash the resulting charcoal with boiling water by decantation.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Once mined, uranium is milled to produce what is called calcined yellowcake, and then enriched, either at facilities in Canada or overseas, to create fuel for nuclear reactors.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024
The MFI nanosheet coatings on SSF supports were calcined at 400 °C for 6 h at a ramp rate of 1 °C min−1 under 100 ml min−1 of air flow after each coating step.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
They complimented her poems for their chilly intellect: “Emotion in her,” as one critic put it, “is calcined to a thin ash.”
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2013
The calcined tin in the retort was now collected and weighed.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
It is prepared by calcining sulphate of iron, to which a little nitre may be advantageously added.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
Lavoisier proposed to test these suppositions by calcining a weighed quantity of tin in a closed glass vessel, which had been weighed before, and should be weighed after, the calcination.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
According to the purposes to which they are applied, reverberatory furnaces may be classed into two groups, namely, fusion or melting furnaces, and calcining or wasting furnaces, also called calciners.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The subchromate of lead gives a very bright red, but it is very unsafe and mixes badly; the reds made by calcining the common sulphate of iron are preferred.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
The calcining is carried out at a dull red heat, which is gradually increased.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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