calcine

Example Sentences

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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 showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

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

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 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

"Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all."

From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington