Definition of Calcining

1. Verb. (present participle of calcine) ¹

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Definition of Calcining

1. calcine [v] - See also: calcine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calcining

calcinable
calcinate
calcination
calcinations
calcinatories
calcinatory
calcine
calcined
calcined lime
calcined magnesia
calciner
calciners
calcines
calcineurins
calcining (current term)
calcinoses
calcinosis
calcinosis circumscripta
calcinosis cutis
calcinosis intervertebralis
calcinosis universalis
calcinotic
calcinuria
calcinuric diabetes
calcio-
calcioandyrobertsite
calcioaravaipaite
calciobetafite
calcioburbankite

Literary usage of Calcining

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

1. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1922)
"calcining in ovens.—In the manufacture of the higher grades of plaster of Paris it is ... calcining in kettles.—The favorite process in the United States, ..."

2. Cements, Limes, and Plasters: Their Materials, Manufacture, and Properties by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1905)
"calcining in ovens.—In the manufacture of the higher grades of plaster of Paris it is ... calcining in kettles.—The favorite process in the United States, ..."

3. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"Preliminary crushing is done by: blasting in the mine; calcining for friability, with or without quenching; by sledging, spalling and cobbing hammers; ..."

4. Elements of Metallurgy: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Extracting Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1887)
"Westman-s gas-kiln, which is used extensively in Sweden for calcining magnetic ores, has a circular stack, somewhat like the upper part of a blast-furnace, ..."

5. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"It is fn>t wanned in a pan usually fitted to the calcining furnace, and then allowed to ... The calcining to evaporate the remaining water completely, ..."

6. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"The calcining furnace for potash, Fig. 126, differs from an ordinary reverberatory furnace in having a Fig. 126. double firing (with the grates a,a, ..."

7. A Manual of Practical Assaying by John Mitchell (1868)
"The calcining is conducted as the warming of a mineral; it generally lasts longer, for the expulsion of the sulphur is to be as complete as possible. ..."

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