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
Filter this off, wash with hot water, dry, calcine, treat with a little nitric acid, ignite, and weigh as copper oxide, CuO.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
The scientific men of the country have made several attempts to calcine this earth, mistaking it for the porcelain earth proceeding from decomposed strata of feldspar.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Thomasina Ross
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
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
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
The calcined tin in the retort was now collected and weighed.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
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
The time occupied in calcining will depend of course upon the quality of the guhr being operated upon.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
This property is taken advantage of in the operation of calcining, scorifying, cupelling, &c.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
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
Pyrites carries 50 per cent. of sulphur, and on calcining yields 70 per cent. of its weight of burnt ore.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
