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calciner

[kal-sahy-ner, kal-sahy-]

noun

  1. a person or thing that calcines.

  2. an industrial furnace that processes material by calcination.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of calciner1

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

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The calciner was developed from metal-ore purification apparatus.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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