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

"Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all."

From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise shewed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

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

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

This metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph