calcin

v. i. To calcine. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. calcination. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Chem.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vessel used in calcination. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Calciden p. pr. & vb. n. Calcining. ] [ F. calciner, fr. L. calx, calcis, lime. See Calx. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. “Calcining without fusion” Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]