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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

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 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

Whether they use Fire to soften, calcine, or crack them?

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg

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 Cornelius Beringer

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

The MFI nanosheet coatings on SSF supports were calcined at 400 °C for 6 h at a ramp rate of 1 °C min−1 under 100 ml min−1 of air flow after each coating step.

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

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

A single tear-drop had power to bring into this calcining oven boiling and desolation.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

The precipitate is filtered off, washed with water to which a little chloride of ammonia is added, dried, and after calcining the fiber and adding the filter ash, glow heated in the crucible.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various

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

According to the purposes to which they are applied, reverberatory furnaces may be classed into two groups, namely, fusion or melting furnaces, and calcining or wasting furnaces, also called calciners.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various




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