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
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)
To obtain pure lime it is necessary to calcine these calcareous substances, that is to say, to expose them to heat of sufficient intensity to drive off the carbonic acid, and other volatile matter.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Why not calcine the two along with him?
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
Uncover and calcine the residue, cool and weigh.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius
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 Ancients, of course, understood lime-burning, and calcined several salts to purify them or to render them more caustic.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
The Peter Spence type of calcining furnace has been followed in a large number of inventions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
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 Beringer, Cornelius
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 Hamilton, William
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
“Do you?” said Mr Temple coldly; and he went on calcining a piece of the soft white stone, and then placing it in a mortar to grind it up fine.
From Menhardoc by Staniland, C.J.
