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Calcine
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To be convereted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.