Antonyms for calcine

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kal-sahyn, -sin

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæl saɪn, -sɪn

Definition of calcine

As in burn : verb be on fire; set on fire

Example sentences :

Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all.
Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable

But if in the dissolving there be aqua fortis, it sufficeth to calcine it.
Extract from : « A Discovrse of Fire and Salt (A Discourse of Fire and Salt) » by Blaise de Vigenre

To 'calcine' is to reduce a metal to an oxide, by the action of heat.
Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales » by Geoffrey Chaucer

Mix white iron ore (manganese iron ore), 15 parts, with lime, 85 parts; calcine and powder as above.
Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley

This metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.
Extract from : « Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry » by Joseph Priestley

Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.
Extract from : « The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry » by M. M. Pattison Muir

This compound hath been exposed to a fire sufficient, not only to dry it, but even to calcine it.
Extract from : « Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. » by Pierre Joseph Macquer

Zinc, while it is not in fusion, doth not calcine; but it begins to turn to a calx the moment it begins to melt.
Extract from : « Elements of the Theory and Practice of Chymistry, 5th ed. » by Pierre Joseph Macquer

Our work consisted in heating the oven in order to calcine the alabaster that we had got together in a heap.
Extract from : « The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia » by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A coral necklace lying there, which the fire had been unable to calcine, told him that these were the remains of his wife and son.
Extract from : « The Lion of Janina » by Mr Jkai

Synonyms for calcine

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