Word Meanings - CALCINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To calcine.
Related words: (words related to CALCINATE)
- CALCINE
Etym: 1. 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 to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones. 2. To oxidize, as a metal - CALCINER
One who, or that which, calcines. - SEMICALCINED
Half calcined; as, semicalcined iron.