What is "calcined"

Usage examples of "calcined".

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.

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.

And gradually losing altitude, he sank through the sombre night until the blue-tinged, white calcined fangs and sloping roofs of Wrathspire rose up like a castle within his spiral, and the bone-embellished base plummeted far below.

And it is certainly odd that when he has the ambulance called, the victims are always totally dead and are usually in the form of a bag of calcined bones fished out of one of the fumaroles.

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.

Between the little lake and the town was the church, built in simple Protestant style, and composed of calcined stones, thrown up by volcanic action.

But contrary to all our expectations, 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.

They stepped out on a beach covered with fine black sand, the impalpable débris of the calcined rocks of the island.