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CALCINE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they calcine ... he / she / it calcines
Past simple: calcined
Past participle: calcined
-ing form: calcining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "calcine" is one way to...):
heat; heat up (make hot or hotter)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
calcination (the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature)
