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Calcine  v. i.  (past & past part. calciden; pres. part. calcining)  
1.
To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
2.
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.





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"Calcine" Quotes from Famous Books



... was full of joy, because he remembered that the first substance of the Stone is described by the Sages as volatile; and he thought that now at last he must be on the right track. He now began to subject the Mercury to all sorts of chemical processes, to sublime it, and to calcine it with all manner of things, with salts, sulphur, metals, minerals, blood, hair, aqua fortis, herbs, urine, and vinegar.... Everything he could think of was tried; but without producing the desired effect." The Alchemist then despaired; ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir


Words linked to "Calcine" :   heat, heat up, chemical science, calcination, chemistry


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