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

The attempt of Gulliver scientists to calcine ice into gunpowder were not more ridiculous than trying to transform a fool into a philosopher by the alchemy of education.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

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 disciples of Stahl, which till lately included the whole chemical world, believed in the identity of phlogiston in all bodies which would flame or calcine.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

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