calcine
Meanings
Plural: calcine, calcined, calcines
Verb
- heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
- To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.
- To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.
- To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.
- To purify or refine (something).
- To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).
- Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.
Noun
- Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.
Origin / Etymology
The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (something) until it turns to powder; to change the nature of (something) by heating”) [and other forms], from Old French calciner (modern French calciner (“to calcinate; to calcine”)) and from its etymon Medieval Latin calcināre (“(alchemy) to burn like lime; to reduce to calx”), from Late Latin calcīna (“inorganic material containing calcium, lime”) + -āre (suffix forming present active infinitive forms of verbs). Calcīna is derived from Latin calcis, the genitive singular of calx (“chalk; limestone”), possibly from Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx, “small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble”); further etymology unknown, possibly Pre-Greek.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Scrabble Score: 11
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