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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Transfer the filter and its contents to an E Battersea crucible, and calcine it for a few minutes.

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

There they would lie until sufficiently dry for the torch that would blacken their massive trunks, and calcine their many branches into dusty heaps of alkali.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various