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Calcination

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.

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Oxidation 76% connected

The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.

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Calcine 74% connected

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,…

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Calcine 74% connected

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,…

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Burning noun · 86% connection

a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light

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Combustion noun · 86% connection

a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light

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Deflagration noun · 86% connection

combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat

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Fire noun · 86% connection

the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first d…

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Flame noun · 86% connection

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Nitrification noun · 86% connection

the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to…

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Oxidisation noun · 86% connection

the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

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Oxidization noun · 86% connection

the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction

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Rust noun · 86% connection

the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water

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Rusting noun · 86% connection

the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water

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Electrolysis noun · 85% connection

(chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions

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a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis

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any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids

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a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis

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any organic compound containing the group -CONH2

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a hydrocarbon containing one or more benzene rings that are characteristic of the benzene series of compounds

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an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups

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Aerate verb · 78% connection

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Aeration noun · 78% connection

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

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After damp unknown · 78% connection

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

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Animal noun · 78% connection

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an…

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Anthracometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.

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Arenaceous adjective · 78% connection

Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.

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Arterialization noun · 78% connection

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic ac…

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Bicarbonate noun · 78% connection

a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate

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Breath noun · 78% connection

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

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Carbon noun · 78% connection

An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…

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