calcine
See also: calciné
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin calcināre, an alchemical term meaning "to burn like lime", "to reduce to calx".[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (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, i.e. to calcinate.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:
- [...] "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:
- (intransitive) to undergo such heating
Translations
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Noun
calcine (plural calcines)
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Verb
calcine
- first-person singular present indicative of calciner
- third-person singular present indicative of calciner
- first-person singular present subjunctive of calciner
- third-person singular present subjunctive of calciner
- second-person singular imperative of calciner
Italian
Noun
calcine f
Portuguese
Verb
calcine
- first-person singular present subjunctive of calcinar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of calcinar
- first-person singular imperative of calcinar
- third-person singular imperative of calcinar
Spanish
Verb
calcine
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calcinar.
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, C-26.
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