Calcine

Quick meaning: Calcine is a verb meaning To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.

Meaning

To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.

More Meanings

1. To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.
2. To purify or refine (something).
3. To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).
4. (intransitive, physical chemistry) Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.
5. Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.
6. To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.

Example Sentences

[A]s his death calcined thee to duſt, / His life may make thee gold, and much more juſt.

I ſent you of his fæces there, calcin'd. / Out of that calx, I'ha'vvonne the ſalt of Mercurie.

Fire […] burneth and calcineth ſtone, vvhereof is made that morter vvhich bindeth all vvork in maſonry.

It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / The Judgment's fire alone can cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.

Word Forms

• calcines
• calcining
• calcined
• calcinest
• calcinedst
• calcineth

Synonyms for calcine

Depending on context, synonyms include chark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recalcine, calcificate, calcitrate, recalcify, cationize, calefy.

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