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Calcine

CALCINE, v.t.
1. To reduce a substance to a powder or to a friable state, by the action of heat; or to expel from a substance some volatile matter, combined with it, or forming its cementing principle, as the carbonic acid from limestone, or the water of crystalization from salts.
2. To oxydize, as a metal; to reduce to a metallic calx.
3. To dissolve; to destroy the principles which unite.
CALCINE, v.i. To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

 

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