अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

To calcine.

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.

A vessel used in calcination.

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.

To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

One who, or that which, calcines.

of Calcine

An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.

Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.

Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.

To kick.

Act of kicking.

An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.

Eroding, or eating into, limestone.

One who practices calcography.

Alt. of Calcographical

Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.

The art of drawing with chalk.