Associations to the word «Calcination»

Wiktionary

CALCINATION, noun. The process of calcining - heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.

Dictionary definition

CALCINATION, noun. The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope