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
Why not calcine the two along with him?
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the 'Malleability of Fire,' which he intended to publish.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
A coral necklace lying there, which the fire had been unable to calcine, told him that these were the remains of his wife and son.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai
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
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
Another process consists in treating a mixture of the residue with one-quarter of its weight of calcined sodium sulphate with sulphuric acid, the residue being finally boiled with a large quantity of acid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 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
The roasting, or calcining, to get rid of the sulphur, is going on here.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Mix the calcined regulus with 10 grams of tartar, 20 grams of soda, and 3 grams of borax; and replace in the crucible used for calcining.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Lavoisier proposed to test these suppositions by calcining a weighed quantity of tin in a closed glass vessel, which had been weighed before, and should be weighed after, the calcination.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
Shaft calcining furnaces like the Gerstenhoffer, Hasenclever, and others designed for burning pyrites fines have not found favour in modern copper works.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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