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
The process is as follows:—Weigh up 5 grams of the ore, and calcine thoroughly on a roasting dish in the muffle.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
There they would lie until sufficiently dry for the torch that would blacken their massive trunks, and calcine their many branches into dusty heaps of alkali.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
Decant on to a Swedish filter paper, dry and calcine.
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
There is something curiously arresting in this quick passage from a green glade carpeted with flowers to the calcined ash and the grey desolation of this broken hillside.
From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway
The furnaces consist of a retort in which the cinnabar is placed with the combustibles for calcining it.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
An air with similar properties was obtained by calcining chalk.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
The old drawings of alchemical operations show us men busy calcining, cohobating, distilling, dissolving, digesting, and performing other processes of like character to these.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
A finer quality of lamp-black, free from oily and empyreumatic parts, is obtained by calcining the soot in closed iron pots at a red heat.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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
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