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

There they would lie until sufficiently dry for the torch that would blacken their massive trunks, and calcine their many branches into dusty heaps of alkali.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

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 Hutton, James

Decant on to a Swedish filter paper, dry and calcine.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

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 Muir, M. M. Pattison