Calcined

Word CALCINED
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Definitions and meanings of "Calcined"

What do we mean by calcined?

To heat something without melting in order to drive off water etc., and to decompose carbonates into oxides or to oxidize or reduce it; especially to heat limestone to form quicklime, i.e. to calcinate.

To undergo such heating

A person with a very high IQ but with no common sense who likes to crash his car into other parked vehicles because of the confusion between the brake and gas pedal. Urban Dictionary

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The word "calcined" in example sentences

Originally it referred to the form of gypsum which has been heated to a high temperature to drive off the water in its crystal structure; this is called calcined gypsum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The product is called calcined soda, and is, of course, more valuable than the crystallized salt. ❋ William McPherson (N/A)

"Here is what is known as a calcined cocoon made by a worm which had a peculiar disease that turned it to powder. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

His stomach had been calcined by the inordinate quantity of whisky he had drunk, and was a dry and raging furnace. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At first wine was served by the black servants to those that drank it, though all quickly shifted back to Scotch and soda, pickling their food as they ate it, ere it went into their calcined, pickled stomachs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That ingredient is slaked lime, limestone that has been calcined, or heated to a high temperature, and then exposed to water. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After a week of charting the River Jordan, the men glided onto the Dead Sea, to Lynch a scene of "unmixed desolation" and "calcined barenness," its stagnant water "the color of diluted absinthe." ❋ Gerard Helferich (2011)

I remember one, a calcined Scotchman from the New Hebrides. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MUMBAI -- India's Goa Carbon Ltd. has short listed two companies for building a joint-venture plant to produce calcined petroleum coke in China and expects to finalize an agreement by the middle of April, its chairman said. ❋ Sahil Mahtani (2010)

����At the next house a man stopped us to show where a blind little brother had been burnt alive, and the spot where he had found his calcined bones, and the rough, hard - visaged man sat down and cried like a child�� ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can only say this: When the bones are calcined all organic matter is destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cement being thus formed, may be poured out of the pipkin in the water, and made into cakes or rolls for use. of this cement, take an equal weight with that of the calcined lapis lazuli, and melt it in a glazed earthen pipkin; but not so as to render it too fluid. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then add to it the calcined matter by very slow degrees, stirring them together with an ivory spatula till the whole appear perfectly mixed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Once separated out, the purified cobalt was roasted and sorted again, and then calcined in a special oven; this would further purify the ore. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Typical drywall consist of gypsum, a calcined product which, like cement, needs to be cooked. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pour off then the vinegar, except what may be necessary for moistening the calcined lapis lazuli in grinding, which operation it must then undergo, in a mortar of flint or glass, till reduced to the greatest degree of fineness those means may effect. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some of his cofeuilletonists declare that purifying waters seldom touch their calcined skin. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But this medicine should be prepared beforehand, as an application to the wound: - Having put urine into a bronze vessel, sprinkle upon the urine the flower of bronze calcined and finely triturated; then, when it is moistened, shake the vessel and dry in the sun. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I cant believe that he [crashed] his car into 4 cars in the [parking lot] and didnt [bother] to tell anyone. What a calcine ❋ Lino (2004)

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