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

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

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

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 Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

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