calcination

American  

[kal-sin-ay-shuhn] / ˌkæl sɪnˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

calcinations plural

1. the process or result of calcining.

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calcination Scientific  

/ kăl′sə-nā′shən /

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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noun

• calcinations
  plural

Example Sentences

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

From Reuters • Jul. 1, 2021

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.

From Nature • Mar. 14, 2017

He gave fairly explicit directions for the preparation, including calcination, boiling, drying, adding sal armoniack, subliming twice.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.

The conversion into sulphate is generally effected by the oxidizing processes of weathering, calcination, heating with iron nitrate or ferric sulphate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

But mercury may likewise be oxydated by means of nitric acid; and in this way we procure a red oxyd, even more pure than that produced by calcination.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine