Calcine: alternatives and connections

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

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

A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the…

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…

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not suffic…

To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colco…

The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; -- said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or vol…

The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from…

To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the ma…

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from t…

To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison;…

Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

An apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retor…

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millst…

Having an excessive proportion of carbonic acid; -- said of bicarbonates or acid carbonates.