Usage examples (32)

• Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.
• The solution is to replace magnesia by other materials, to calcine part of the clay or to use calcined zinc oxide instead of raw.
• CALCINATIO calcine (vb) To heat to a high temperature but without fusing in order to drive off volatile matter or to effect changes.
• Gypsum starts to calcine from around 100ºC, and since set plaster is actually gypsum, the plaster moulds also become calcined on heating.