Word Meanings - CALCINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To calcine.

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• 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
• CALCINER
  One who, or that which, calcines.
• SEMICALCINED
  Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.