Word Meanings - CALCINABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.

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• CALCINATION
  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 carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order
• FOSSILIZATION
  The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
• FOSSILIZE
  1. To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood. 2. To cause to become antiquated, rigid, or fixed, as by fossilization; to mummify; to deaden. Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head Are apt to fossilize her
• FOSSIL
  Like or pertaining to fossils; contained in rocks. whether petrified or not; as, fossil plants, shells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by
• CALCINE
  Etym: 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 to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones. 2. To oxidize, as a metal
• FOSSILIST
  One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.
• FOSSILIZED
  Converted into a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.
• CALCINER
  One who, or that which, calcines.
• CALCINABLE
  That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
• CALCINATE
  To calcine.
• CALCINATORY
  A vessel used in calcination.
• FOSSILISM
  1. The science or state of fossils. Coleridge. 2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
• FOSSILIFEROUS
  Containing or composed of fossils.
• FOSSILIFICATION
  The process of becoming fossil.
• CORK FOSSIL
  A variety of amianthus which is very light, like cork.
• SEMICALCINED
  Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.