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
Our work consisted in heating the oven in order to calcine the alabaster that we had got together in a heap.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Those chains, e'en when they seem than diamond harder, Soften, calcine, and fall like dust away, Touched by the burning finger of ambition.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
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
Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
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
We turn not back in the direction of our dwellings until high noon, doubly defeated by the blaze of the perpendicular rays of the sun and their reverberation on white sand and calcined stones.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
The engineering features of the system, so far as regards evaporating and calcining, are the same.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
An air with similar properties was obtained by calcining chalk.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
A variety of animal charcoal is sometimes prepared by calcining fresh blood with potassium carbonate in large cylinders, the mass being purified by boiling out with dilute hydrochloric acid and subsequent reheating.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
The conversion of copper sulphide into the chlorides may be accomplished by calcining with common salt, or by treating the ores with ferrous chloride and hydrochloric acid or with ferric chloride.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Shaft calcining furnaces are available for fine ores and permit the recovery of the sulphur.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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