calcine

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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 Beringer, Cornelius

The mode of proceeding is to calcine the berry in a covered vessel, and well wash the resulting charcoal with boiling water by decantation.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Why not calcine the two along with him?

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

The generality of cooks calcine bones, till they are as black as a coal, and throw them hissing hot into the stew-pan, to give a brown colour to their broths.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William