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 Inflected Forms

• calcinations
  plural

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calcination calcinations

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

It may also be accomplished by calcination with ferrous sulphate, or other easily decomposable sulphates, such as aluminium sulphate.

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

When broken in pieces, it falls into powder by a spontaneous calcination, and this powder is magnetical, though the mass was not possessed of that property.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

Lavoisier followed in their track by a series of experiments in the calcination of metals, pursued with remarkable intelligence and industry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

For calcinations, roasting dishes are useful: these are broad and shallow, not unlike saucers, but unglazed.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Hence, probably, came the adjective chyic or chymic, and, at a somewhat later time, the word chemia as the name of that art which deals with calcinations, fusions, meltings, and the like.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir

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