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
There they would lie until sufficiently dry for the torch that would blacken their massive trunks, and calcine their many branches into dusty heaps of alkali.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Why not calcine the two along with him?
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
Some vanners calcine their samples before commencing to van.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
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
They are pulverized and some are calcined or oxidized.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
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
This Crystal is a pellucid fissile Stone, clear as Water or Crystal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without losing its transparency, and in a very strong Heat calcining without Fusion.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
If, however, an ore gives a layer of matte or speise, it is best to repeat the assay by the method of calcining before fusion.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
A single tear-drop had power to bring into this calcining oven boiling and desolation.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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
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