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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

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

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

The disciples of Stahl, which till lately included the whole chemical world, believed in the identity of phlogiston in all bodies which would flame or calcine.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

Yellow ochre, No. 244, 15 parts; oxide of cobalt, 1 part; triturate and calcine in a crucible until it has the desired tone.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

The mode of preparation is to calcine the gypsum at temperatures which depend on the class of cement to be produced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

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

The calcined metal thus produced now unites with an acid, and a salt is obtained which forms itself into crystals.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

This property is taken advantage of in the operation of calcining, scorifying, cupelling, &c.

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

In several parts of the outside cone, this calcining operation is still carried on, by the exhalation of constant very hot and damp vapours, impregnated with salts, sulphur, alum, &c.

From Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos by William Hamilton

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

Shaft calcining furnaces like the Gerstenhoffer, Hasenclever, and others designed for burning pyrites fines have not found favour in modern copper works.

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


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