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

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder, who likewise shewed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The mode of proceeding is to calcine the berry in a covered vessel, and well wash the resulting charcoal with boiling water by decantation.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit," and another asks:—   "Can you sublime and dulcify? calcine?

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post