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 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

Some vanners calcine their samples before commencing to van.

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