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 generality of cooks calcine bones, till they are as black as a coal, and throw them hissing hot into the stew-pan, to give a brown colour to their broths.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by Kitchiner, William

Why not calcine the two along with him?

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

A throne-crater can swallow up and calcine even gold mountains, and eject them as lava.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison