calcine limestone
1Calcine — Cal*cine , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Calciden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Calcining}.] [F. calciner, fr. L. calx, calcis, lime. See {Calx}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by …
2calcine — verb a) 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 b) to undergo such heating …
3cal´cin|er — cal|cine «KAL syn, sihn», verb, cined, cin|ing. –v.t. 1. to burn (something) to ashes or powder: »to calcine bones. It was destroyed by a fire so intense that some of its foundations were calcined into a white powder (Scientific American). 2. to… …
4cal|cine — «KAL syn, sihn», verb, cined, cin|ing. –v.t. 1. to burn (something) to ashes or powder: »to calcine bones. It was destroyed by a fire so intense that some of its foundations were calcined into a white powder (Scientific American). 2. to change to …
5Calciden — Calcine Cal*cine , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Calciden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Calcining}.] [F. calciner, fr. L. calx, calcis, lime. See {Calx}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter …
6Calcining — Calcine Cal*cine , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Calciden}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Calcining}.] [F. calciner, fr. L. calx, calcis, lime. See {Calx}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter …
7Joseph Aspdin — (December? 1778 – 20 March 1855) was a British cement manufacturer who obtained the patent for Portland cement on 21 October 1824.Joseph Aspdin (or Aspden) was the eldest of the six children of Thomas Aspdin, a bricklayer living in the Hunslet… …
8steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
9Calcination — (also referred to as calcining) is a thermal treatment process applied to ores and other solid materials in order to bring about a thermal decomposition, phase transition, or removal of a volatile fraction. The calcination process normally takes… …
10metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …
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