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 process is as follows:—Weigh up 5 grams of the ore, and calcine thoroughly on a roasting dish in the muffle.

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

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

"Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all."

From The Cavalier by Cable, George Washington