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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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

Therefore, said Black, it is possible to recover the whole of the chalk originally present before calcination, by adding a fixed alkali to the calcined chalk or quicklime.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

Polli obtained complete incineration or calcination of dogs by the use of coal-gas mixed with atmospheric air, applied to a cylindrical retort of refracting clay, so as to consume the gaseous products of combustion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

I repeated, with the magnesia prepared in this manner, most of those experiments I had already made upon it before calcination, and the result was as follows.

From Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Black, Joseph