calcine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

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

3. fiil To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.
4. fiil To purify or refine (something).
5. fiil To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).

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

6. fiil Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.

   “This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.”

7. isim Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.