Lexic.us

Definition of Calcine

1. Verb. Heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces.

Definition of Calcine

1. v. i. 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 (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

2. v. i. To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

Definition of Calcine

1. Verb. (transitive) to heat something without melting in order to drive off water etc., and to decompose carbonates into oxides or to oxidize or reduce it; especially to heat limestone to form quicklime ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) to undergo such heating ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Calcine

1. to reduce to a calx by heat [v -CINED, -CINING, -CINES]

Medical Definition of Calcine

1. To expel water and volatile matter by heat. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcine

Literary usage of Calcine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"calcine the mixture. Take of mastico!, prepared as in the preceding, ... calcine the two metals till reduced to x powder, by the means used by potters. ..."

2. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"Pulverize each article, and mix; then put onto a shovel, or piece of earthen und calcine, or heat, to a red heat, or until it softens down and becomes dry ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"This retort was operated for a couple of weeks with a mixture of 30 parts fine Diamondville coal and 70 parts calcine, with indifferent results. ..."

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