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Calcination
CALCINATION, n. [from calcine.]
1. The operation of expelling from a substance by heat, some volatile matter with which it is combined, or which is the cementing principle, and thus reducing it to a friable state. Thus chalk and carbonate of lime are reduced to lime by calcination, or the expulsion of carbonic acid.
2. The operation of reducing a metal to an oxyd, or metallic calx. This is modern chemistry is called oxidation.
calcination appears in definitions for these words:
Calcar Calcination Calcinatory Calx Colcothar Crepitate Crepitation Ethics Galenic Hartshorn Ignition Looping Minium Revive Zaffer
Calcar Calcination Calcinatory Calx Colcothar Crepitate Crepitation Ethics Galenic Hartshorn Ignition Looping Minium Revive Zaffer
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