Crossword clues for calcine
calcine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calcine \Cal*cine"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Calciden; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcining.] [F. calciner, fr. L. calx, calcis, lime. See Calx.]
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.
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
Calcine \Cal*cine"\, v. i.
To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a
calx, by the action of heat. ``Calcining without fusion''
--Newton.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) to heat something without melting in order to drive off water etc., and to decompose carbonates into oxides or to oxidize or reduce it; especially to heat limestone to form quicklime 2 (context intransitive English) to undergo such heating
WordNet
v. heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
Usage examples of "calcine".
In July they found four or five urns of unbaked clay in one barrow - of early British make, very coarse, all either full of black earth or calcined bones, and all inverted and very rough in material, with the exception of one which was of a finer material, red, and like a modern flower-pot in shape.
In most cases substances soluble in acids are first removed, and the insoluble residue dried, weighed, and then calcined or burned in a current of air.
Any coloured residue which may be left is generally organic matter: it is filtered off, calcined, and any copper it contains is estimated colorimetrically.
I, my uncle, and the Icelander, were cast upon the slope of a mountain calcined by the burning rays of a sun which was literally baking us with its fires.
Cyrus Harding had only one operation to make, to calcine the sulphate of iron crystals in a closed vase, so that the sulphuric acid should distil in vapor, which vapor, by condensation, would produce the acid.
Split human long bones were piled against the inner walls, some calcined by heat, others red and raw.
The scapula was a maze of cracks now, the bone showing blue, beige and calcined white.
They stepped out on a beach covered with fine black sand, the impalpable DEBRIS of the calcined rocks of the island.
CHAPTER XXIX CONDEMNED TO DEATH Half an hour passed in silence, which was broken only by the footsteps of the sentries as they tramped, or rather loitered, up and down, or by the occasional fall of some calcined masonry from the walls of the burnt-out house.
Along the streets there were heaps of calcined material of unroofed walls of houses--a proof that Pougatcheff had been there.
Honourable salary-man had gone to honourable ancestors - his unknown sin expiated as his calcined bones sank slowly down into the stomach of the world.
DEEP BLOOD RED Subsulphate of iron, calcined in a muffle until it becomes a beautiful capucine red, 1 part.
FLESH RED The sulphate of iron, put in a small crucible, and lightly calcined, produces a suitable red oxide.
Even the ghosts, it seemed, had been calcined away by the wizards' wrath.
Many hours yet before that furnace orb would blaze between the peaks on Wrathstack itself, and even then only on the bleached or calcined south face of lofty Wrathspire.