calcine

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to calcine

Third person singular
calcines

Simple past
calcined

Past participle
calcined

Present participle
calcining

to calcine (third-person singular simple present calcines, present participle calcining, simple past and past participle calcined)

  1. (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
  2. (intransitive) to undergo such heating

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams



[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

calcine f.

  1. Plural form of calcina.