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
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
"Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all."
From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable
Our work consisted in heating the oven in order to calcine the alabaster that we had got together in a heap.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
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
Having done so, she makes a large fire at an end of the garden, and burns the pieces of earthenware so that they shall be utterly calcined.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
If, however, an ore gives a layer of matte or speise, it is best to repeat the assay by the method of calcining before fusion.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Lavoisier proposed to test these suppositions by calcining a weighed quantity of tin in a closed glass vessel, which had been weighed before, and should be weighed after, the calcination.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
The conversion of copper sulphide into the chlorides may be accomplished by calcining with common salt, or by treating the ores with ferrous chloride and hydrochloric acid or with ferric chloride.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
And a set of ordinary clay crucibles for calcining.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
The calcining is carried out at a dull red heat, which is gradually increased.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
