CALCINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcine mean? 

• CALCINE (verb)
  The verb CALCINE has 1 sense:

1. heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces

  Familiarity information: CALCINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they calcine    ... he / she / it calcines   
Past simple: calcined   
Past participle: calcined   
-ing form: calcining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "calcine" is one way to...):

heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

calcination (the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature)

 Context examples 

I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am now in a condition to show, by—HEEP'S—false books, and—HEEP'S—real memoranda, beginning with the partially destroyed pocket-book (which I was unable to comprehend, at the time of its accidental discovery by Mrs. Micawber, on our taking possession of our present abode, in the locker or bin devoted to the reception of the ashes calcined on our domestic hearth), that the weaknesses, the faults, the very virtues, the parental affections, and the sense of honour, of the unhappy Mr. W. have been for years acted on by, and warped to the base purposes of—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)