Calcining

verb

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo 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, i.e. to calcinate.

2.verbTo undergo such heating

Synonyms

calcination smelting calcitic coking coal combustion incinerating carbonization incineration smelter coking burning calcimine

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