Calcine

['kælsaɪn;-sɪn] or ['kælsaɪn]

Definition

(verb.) heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces.

Editor: Mamie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.

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

Typed by Catherine

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Burn, reduce to ashes.[2]. Oxidize, oxidate.

Inputed by Diego

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