calcine

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Calcine oyster-shells, pound them, sift them through a silk sieve, and grind them on porphyry till they are reduced to the finest powder.

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"See Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, "It nothing skills; I cannot help my case; 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place,65 Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Calcine, with occasional stirring, until no odour of sulphurous oxide can be detected.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius