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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

Some vanners calcine their samples before commencing to van.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Why not calcine the two along with him?

From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw

The process is as follows:—Weigh up 5 grams of the ore, and calcine thoroughly on a roasting dish in the muffle.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Some days later the ashes and calcined bones are collected and burnt.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Light red is a deep, warm red earth, made by calcining ochre, and has the same permanence as the other ochres.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

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

The furnaces consist of a retort in which the cinnabar is placed with the combustibles for calcining it.

From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s

A single tear-drop had power to bring into this calcining oven boiling and desolation.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Lavoisier proposed to test these suppositions by calcining a weighed quantity of tin in a closed glass vessel, which had been weighed before, and should be weighed after, the calcination.

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




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