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
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
Uncover and calcine the residue, cool and weigh.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Transfer the filter and its contents to an E Battersea crucible, and calcine it for a few minutes.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
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
Numbers 3 and 7, when calcined, will give much more even results and they can be coloured by the addition of the oxides named.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
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
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
The Peter Spence type of calcining furnace has been followed in a large number of inventions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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
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
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