calcination

Noun

Meaning

The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blazing firing burning burn combustion ignition baked baking branding roast cauterization calcification cautery carbonization decrepitation
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Antonyms

black dark cold frozen freezing sad
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Hypernyms

oxidation oxidization oxidisation

Examples

After calcination the flint pebbles were milled to a fine particle size. Source: Internet

He concluded that this was just a pure form of common air, and that it was the air itself "undivided, without alteration, without decomposition" which combined with metals on calcination. Source: Internet

It is a jet-black powder produced by high temperature calcination. Source: Internet

Calcination equilibrium Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world. Source: Internet

Calcination involves passing the waste through a heated, rotating tube. Source: Internet

Oelef Heckroodt,Ceramic Review No. 254, March/April 2012, p.64 "Calcination Of Flint. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

calcin calcinable calcinate calcinatory calcine calcined