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calcine

[kal-sahyn, -sin] / ˈkæl saɪn, -sɪn /


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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

Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit," and another asks:—   "Can you sublime and dulcify? calcine?

From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

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

This metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley

The disciples of Stahl, which till lately included the whole chemical world, believed in the identity of phlogiston in all bodies which would flame or calcine.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin

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

Flint′-glass, a very fine and pure kind of glass, so called because originally made of calcined flints.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

The conversion of copper sulphide into the chlorides may be accomplished by calcining with common salt, or by treating the ores with ferrous chloride and hydrochloric acid or with ferric chloride.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" 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

The old drawings of alchemical operations show us men busy calcining, cohobating, distilling, dissolving, digesting, and performing other processes of like character to these.

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

A finer quality of lamp-black, free from oily and empyreumatic parts, is obtained by calcining the soot in closed iron pots at a red heat.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various


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