Antimony may also be calcined by mixing with that mineral an equal quantity of charcoal-dust.
Where there had been shops and hotels, there were now heaps of rubble and calcined bricks.
Some fragments of a human femur were found in a calcined state.
It is a most repellent tract of desert just there, calcined and blasted.
From the calcined bark of this tree the natives extract a sort of lime, with which they mix the betel they are constantly chewing.
The calcined matter is raked out, and lixiviated with water.
Sometimes the magnesite is calcined, and the magnesia thus obtained used instead.
I was also desirous to compare the action of the calcined Magnesia with the other.
The urn held small pieces of calcined bone, and, among them, a small lacrimatory of very thin green glass.
From clay and chalk, or argillaceous river-mud and chalk or limestone, calcined together, and then ground to powder.
calcine cal·cine (kāl-sīn, kāl'sīn)
v. cal·cined, cal·cining, cal·cines
To heat a substance to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point, causing loss of moisture, reduction, or oxidation and the decomposition of carbonates and other compounds.