calcination

1. The process of heating a substance to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point, causing loss of moisture, reduction or oxidation, and dissociation into simpler substances. The term was originally applied to the method of driving off carbon dioxide from limestone to obtain lime (calcium oxide). Calcination is also used to extract metals from ores.

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The emissions start with mining raw materials such as limestone and crushing it to prepare for a process called calcination.

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It happens at room temperature, without the need for fossil fuels or calcination - two of the main sources of the cement industry's CO2 emissions.

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MFI nanosheets on Si wafer were then rubbed by cotton fabric to detach the seeds, followed by additional calcination under identical conditions to remove any organic contamination.

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He had given a simple explanation of the process of calcination, and had proved, by accurate experiments, that this explanation was certainly true in some cases.

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The calcination, or roasting, is conducted at a low temperature in some form of reverberatory furnace.

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