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
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
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
Heat gently with a Bunsen burner until the sulphur burns, and then calcine until no more sulphurous oxide comes off.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
A throne-crater can swallow up and calcine even gold mountains, and eject them as lava.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
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
Some days later the ashes and calcined bones are collected and burnt.
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
And a set of ordinary clay crucibles for calcining.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
"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
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 Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
The engineering features of the system, so far as regards evaporating and calcining, are the same.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
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