CALCINE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.

3.
v.

To be convereted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" Newton.


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