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 mode of proceeding is to calcine the berry in a covered vessel, and well wash the resulting charcoal with boiling water by decantation.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The scientific men of the country have made several attempts to calcine this earth, mistaking it for the porcelain earth proceeding from decomposed strata of feldspar.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
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
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
Young children or those with delicate stomach, and those much enfeebled by the primary disease, may take magnesia, either the citrate or the calcined.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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 William Hamilton
This Crystal is a pellucid fissile Stone, clear as Water or Crystal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without losing its transparency, and in a very strong Heat calcining without Fusion.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
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
Black was obtained by calcining the bones of animals.
From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero
Pyrites carries 50 per cent. of sulphur, and on calcining yields 70 per cent. of its weight of burnt ore.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
