calcine
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I have also found by experiment that it may be heated to redness in the fire without being in anywise altered or rendered less transparent; but a very violent fire calcines it nevertheless.
From Treatise on Light by Huygens, Christiaan
Limestone, however, calcines when subjected to fire and is, therefore, objected to by many engineers for building construction.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
The Bar is of Portland stone, which London smoke alternately blackens and calcines; and each façade has four Corinthian pilasters, an entablature, and an arched pediment.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
When boiling it emits fumes, and calcines very rapidly.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
The mouldering state of these hills is, doubtless, owing to the perpetual action of the sun, which calcines their surface.
