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

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

Filter this off, wash with hot water, dry, calcine, treat with a little nitric acid, ignite, and weigh as copper oxide, CuO.

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

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

In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James