calcine
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to calcine (third-person singular simple present calcines, present participle calcining, simple past and past participle calcined)
- (transitive) to 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
- (intransitive) to undergo such heating
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calcine f.
- Plural form of calcina.