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
- calcinable adjective
- calcination noun
- calcinator noun
- calcinatory adjective
- semicalcined adjective
- uncalcined adjective
Etymology
Origin of calcine
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin calcināre to heat, originally used by alchemists
Example Sentences
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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
The scientific men of the country have made several attempts to calcine this earth, mistaking it for the porcelain earth proceeding from decomposed strata of feldspar.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
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 Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
Uncover and calcine the residue, cool and weigh.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
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