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
In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
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 Sir Charles Lyell
A throne-crater can swallow up and calcine even gold mountains, and eject them as lava.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Filter this off, wash with hot water, dry, calcine, treat with a little nitric acid, ignite, and weigh as copper oxide, CuO.
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
Pure alumina or calcined Aluminium is a chemical product.Ammonia.—A volatile gaseous matter, found in some clays.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
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
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
The precipitate is filtered off, washed with water to which a little chloride of ammonia is added, dried, and after calcining the fiber and adding the filter ash, glow heated in the crucible.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 by Various
"I know what you want better than you do," he seems often to be saying to the metals he is calcining, separating, joining and subliming.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
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
