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
In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James
A coral necklace lying there, which the fire had been unable to calcine, told him that these were the remains of his wife and son.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór
The attempt of Gulliver scientists to calcine ice into gunpowder were not more ridiculous than trying to transform a fool into a philosopher by the alchemy of education.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
Why not calcine the two along with him?
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
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
Height profiles of calcined MFI nanosheets on Si wafers were acquired in a tapping mode under ambient condition by using Bruker Nanoscope V Multimode 8.
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
Being quite calcined as to the head and shoulders, we somewhat thankfully undertook the descent.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
Calcar, kal′kar, n. an oven or furnace for calcining the materials of frit before melting—also Fritting-furnace: an arch or oven for annealing.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Black was obtained by calcining the bones of animals.
From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by Maspero, G. (Gaston)
It is prepared by calcining sulphate of iron, to which a little nitre may be advantageously added.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
This same chemist was acquainted with oxidizing and calcining processes, and knew methods of obtaining soda and potash salts, and the properties of saltpetre.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
A single tear-drop had power to bring into this calcining oven boiling and desolation.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
