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
The mode of preparation is to calcine the gypsum at temperatures which depend on the class of cement to be produced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise shewed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
"Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all."
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
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
Height profiles of calcined MFI nanosheets on Si wafers were acquired in a tapping mode under ambient condition by using Bruker Nanoscope V Multimode 8.
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
Being quite calcined as to the head and shoulders, we somewhat thankfully undertook the descent.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
And a set of ordinary clay crucibles for calcining.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
The discovery of this important pigment was made in 1802 by M. Thénard, who obtained it by calcining a well-combined mixture of alumina and crystals of cobalt.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The subchromate of lead gives a very bright red, but it is very unsafe and mixes badly; the reds made by calcining the common sulphate of iron are preferred.
From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by L. Arnoux
Calcar, kal′kar, n. an oven or furnace for calcining the materials of frit before melting—also Fritting-furnace: an arch or oven for annealing.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
In several parts of the outside cone, this calcining operation is still carried on, by the exhalation of constant very hot and damp vapours, impregnated with salts, sulphur, alum, &c.
From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by William Hamilton
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