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calcine

[kal-sahyn, -sin] / ˈkæl saɪn, -sɪn /


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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

But for the foods of tears mine eyelids rail and rain, *      My fires would flame on high and every land calcine.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

A throne-crater can swallow up and calcine even gold mountains, and eject them as lava.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the 'Malleability of Fire,' which he intended to publish.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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

They are pulverized and some are calcined or oxidized.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox

An air with similar properties was obtained by calcining chalk.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

This is drawn up an inclined plane over the tops of the furnaces, and from thence emptied through hoppers, 3½ to 4½ tons at a time, into the large calcining furnace.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 by Robert Chambers

Shaft calcining furnaces are available for fine ores and permit the recovery of the sulphur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Mix the calcined regulus with 10 grams of tartar, 20 grams of soda, and 3 grams of borax; and replace in the crucible used for calcining.

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

A brittle potassium alloy of silver-white colour and lamellar fracture is obtained by calcining 20 parts of bismuth with 16 of cream of tartar at a strong red heat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various


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