Definitions for calcines

calcines cal·cine

Spelling: [kal-sahyn, -sin]
IPA: /ˈkæl saɪn, -sɪn/

Calcines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 318 anagrams from letters in calcines (acceilns).

Definitions for calcines

noun

  1. material resulting from calcination; calx.

verb (used with object)

  1. to convert into calx by heating or burning.
  2. to frit.

verb (used without object)

  1. to be converted into calx by heating or burning.

Origin of calcines

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin calcināre to heat, orig. used by alchemists

Examples for calcines

But if in the dissolving there be aqua fortis, it sufficeth to calcine it.

A coral necklace lying there, which the fire had been unable to calcine, told him that these were the remains of his wife and son.

Still, just to clinch the thing, we'll calcine him, gin-house and all.

Our work consisted in heating the oven in order to calcine the alabaster that we had got together in a heap.

This metal readily parts with its phlogiston, so as to be very subject to calcine, or rust, by exposure to the air.

Mix white iron ore (manganese iron ore), 15 parts, with lime, 85 parts; calcine and powder as above.

Lavoisier concluded that to calcine tin is to cause it to combine with a portion of the air wherein it is calcined.

Zinc, while it is not in fusion, doth not calcine; but it begins to turn to a calx the moment it begins to melt.

This compound hath been exposed to a fire sufficient, not only to dry it, but even to calcine it.

To 'calcine' is to reduce a metal to an oxide, by the action of heat.

Word Value for calcines
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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