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
Heat gently with a Bunsen burner until the sulphur burns, and then calcine until no more sulphurous oxide comes off.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
The process is as follows:—Weigh up 5 grams of the ore, and calcine thoroughly on a roasting dish in the muffle.
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
Filter this off, wash with hot water, dry, calcine, treat with a little nitric acid, ignite, and weigh as copper oxide, CuO.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
Prepared MFI nanosheet coating was then calcined at 400 °C for 6 h at a ramp rate of 1 °C min−1.
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
“The Pills consist of snails calcined, wild carrot seeds, burdock seeds, asken keys, hips and hawes, all burnt to a blackness—soap and honey.”
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
And a set of ordinary clay crucibles for calcining.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
This property is taken advantage of in the operation of calcining, scorifying, cupelling, &c.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
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
A finer quality of lamp-black, free from oily and empyreumatic parts, is obtained by calcining the soot in closed iron pots at a red heat.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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