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The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature
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calcination
Word definitions for calcination in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calcination \Cal`ci*na"tion\ (k[a^]l`s[i^]*n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Chem.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from ...
Wikipedia
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Authorities differ on the meaning of calcination (also referred to as calcining ). The IUPAC defines it as 'Heating to high temperatures in air or oxygen'. However calcination is also used to mean a thermal treatment process in the absence or limited supply ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of calcine - heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
Usage examples of calcination.
Our furnace eke of calcination, And of waters albification, Unslaked lime, chalk, and *glair of an ey,* *egg-white Powders diverse, ashes, dung, piss, and clay, Seared pokettes, saltpetre, and vitriol.
After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of action that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!
After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!
Our lamps that burned by day and burned by night To bring about our end, if but we might, Our furnace, too, white-hot for calcination, And waters all prepared for albication, Unslaked lime, chalk, and white of egg, I say, Powders diverse, and ashes, dung, piss, clay, Little waxed bags, saltpetre, vitriol.