Calcination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calcination \Cal`ci*na"tion\ (k[a^]l`s[i^]*n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
     [F. calcination.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. (Chem.) 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or
        metallic calx; oxidation.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  calcination
       n : the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of
           heating to a high temperature

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "calcination":
     blazing, blistering, branding, burning, carbonization,
     cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation,
     cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration,
     destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming,
     incineration, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyrolysis,
     refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation,
     singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication