CALCINATION
\kˌalsɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \kˌalsɪnˈeɪʃən], \k_ˌa_l_s_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CALCINATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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The act of submitting to a strong heat any infusible mineral substance, which we are desirous of depriving either of its water, or of any other volatilizable substance that enters into its composition; or which we wish to combine with oxygen. Alum is calcined to get rid of its water of crystallization ;-chalk, to reduce it to the state of pure lime, by driving off the carbonic acid; and certain metals are subjected to this operation to oxidize them.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The process of subjecting an incombustible compound to great heat, in order to drive off its vaporizable constituents, such as water, carbonic acid, etc. [Lat]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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