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

Transfer the filter and its contents to an E Battersea crucible, and calcine it for a few minutes.

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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

To obtain pure lime it is necessary to calcine these calcareous substances, that is to say, to expose them to heat of sufficient intensity to drive off the carbonic acid, and other volatile matter.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir