calcine
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Then it turns into calcine bone that’s grayish white and brittle with no organic matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
This metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir
In the erupted lavas, those substances which are subject to calcine and vitrify in our fires, suffer similar changes, when delivered from a compression which had rendered them fixed, though in an extremely heated state.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
A throne-crater can swallow up and calcine even gold mountains, and eject them as lava.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Once mined, uranium is milled to produce what is called calcined yellowcake, and then enriched, either at facilities in Canada or overseas, to create fuel for nuclear reactors.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024
The MFI nanosheet coatings on SSF supports were calcined at 400 °C for 6 h at a ramp rate of 1 °C min−1 under 100 ml min−1 of air flow after each coating step.
From Nature ● Mar. 14, 2017
The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
They complimented her poems for their chilly intellect: “Emotion in her,” as one critic put it, “is calcined to a thin ash.”
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2013
The water, after washing the wool, is evaporated, and the residue calcined.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
A brittle potassium alloy of silver-white colour and lamellar fracture is obtained by calcining 20 parts of bismuth with 16 of cream of tartar at a strong red heat.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
A single tear-drop had power to bring into this calcining oven boiling and desolation.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Light red is a deep, warm red earth, made by calcining ochre, and has the same permanence as the other ochres.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
The calcining is carried out at a dull red heat, which is gradually increased.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
This Crystal is a pellucid fissile Stone, clear as Water or Crystal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without losing its transparency, and in a very strong Heat calcining without Fusion.
From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton
