calciner

American  

[kal-sahy-ner, kal-sahy-] / kælˈsaɪ nər, ˈkæl saɪ- /

noun

1. a person or thing that calcines.

2. an industrial furnace that processes material by calcination.

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Etymology

Origin of calciner

First recorded in 1700–10; calcine + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The calciner was developed from metal-ore purification apparatus.

From Economist

These are whisked to the third receptacle, called a calciner.

From Economist

In some processes of lead-smelting, where the minerals treated contain sand, the long calciner is provided with a melting bottom close to the fire-place, so that the desulphurized ore leaves the furnace as a glassy slag or silicate, which is subsequently reduced to the metallic state by fusion with fluxes in blast furnaces.

From Project Gutenberg

Brunton’s calciner, used in the “burning” of the pyritic minerals associated with tin ore, is a familiar example of this type.

From Project Gutenberg

It is obtained commercially by roasting arsenical pyrites in either a Brunton’s or Oxland’s rotatory calciner, the crude product being collected in suitable condensing chambers, and afterwards refined by resublimation, usually in reverberatory furnaces, the foreign matter being deposited in a long flue leading to the condensing chambers.

From Project Gutenberg