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Calcine   Listen
verb
Calcine  v. i.  (past & past part. calciden; pres. part. calcining)  
1.
To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
2.
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.





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"Calcine" Quotes from Famous Books



... at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which ...
— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift


Words linked to "Calcine" :   heat, heat up


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