intransitive verb. To heat (a substance) to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point, causing loss of moisture, reduction or oxidation, and the decomposition of carbonates and other compounds.

intransitive verb. To convert (liquid material, especially radioactive wastes) to granular solids by drying at very high temperatures.

intransitive verb. To be calcined.

noun. A substance produced by calcining.

To consume by burning; burn to ashes.

To purify or refine by fire.

To desiccate by subjection to heat so as to destroy contained organisms, etc.: as, to calcine air.

noun. Fragments of already burnt fire-clay vessels, as the saggars of porcelain manufacture, ground up and used in making new vessels, with addition of fresh fire-clay. Also chamotte.

To convert into lime or calx by the action of heat; treat (limestone) by the process of calcination for the formation of lime.

To oxidize, as a metal, by heating.

In metallurgy, to subject to the action of heat, with access of air: nearly equivalent to roast (which see).

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

intransitive verb. To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.

verb. 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

verb. to undergo such heating

verb. heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces

"I suppose the cause of that redish colour is occasioned as follows: the Minium assists in some manner to calcine the copper yet further than in was before & uniting together produces that effect so I think no minium shall be used with Copper in any form whatever."

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