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Calcine

verb
(past & past part. calciden; pres. part. calcining)
1.
Heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces.






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"Calcine" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first substance of the Stone is described by the Sages as volatile; and he thought that now at last he must be on the right track. He now began to subject the Mercury to all sorts of chemical processes, to sublime it, and to calcine it with all manner of things, with salts, sulphur, metals, minerals, blood, hair, aqua fortis, herbs, urine, and vinegar.... Everything he could think of was tried; but without producing the desired effect." ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir



Words linked to "Calcine" :   calcination, heat up, heat, chemical science, chemistry



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