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

Yellow ochre, No. 244, 15 parts; oxide of cobalt, 1 part; triturate and calcine in a crucible until it has the desired tone.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

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

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 Priestley, Joseph

The mode of preparation is to calcine the gypsum at temperatures which depend on the class of cement to be produced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various