calcination

English

Etymology

calcine +‎ -ation

Noun

calcination (countable and uncountable, plural calcinations)

1. The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.

   Synonym: lime burning

Translations

the process of calcining

• Czech: kalcinace f
• Finnish: pasutus (fi)
• French: calcination (fr)
• Galician: calcinación (gl) f
• Greek: απασβέστωση (el) f (apasvéstosi)
• Italian: calcinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 煆焼 (かしょう, kashō)、焼成 (ja) (しょうせい, shōsei)
• Portuguese: calcinação (pt) m
• Russian: кальцинация (ru) f (kalʹcinacija)
• Spanish: calcinación f, calcinamiento (es) m
• Ukrainian: кальцинація f (kalʹcynacija)

Further reading

• Calcination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lime kiln on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.si.na.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

calcination f (plural calcinations)

1. calcination

Related terms

• calcin
• calciner

Further reading

• “calcination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.