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Calcination

noun
1.
The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature.





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... results. In many cases human bones have been found in considerable quantities, sometimes in a calcined condition; but there is no real evidence to show that cremation was the burial rite practised. The calcination of human bones may well have been caused by the lighting of fires in the tomb, either at some funeral ceremony, or in even later days, when the place was used as a shelter for peasants. A few poor flints were ...
— Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders • T. Eric Peet


Words linked to "Calcination" :   calcine, oxidization, oxidisation, oxidation


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