Word Meanings - SEMICALCINED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.

Related words: (words related to SEMICALCINED)

• 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
• 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.
• CALCINABLE
  That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
• CALCINATE
  To calcine.
• CALCINATORY
  A vessel used in calcination.
• SEMICALCINED
  Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.