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They were walking over yellowish calcinated earth, forming a plain of nearly a mile long, which extended to the edge of the wood.
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They were walking over yellowish calcinated earth, forming a plain of nearly a mile long, which extended to the edge of the wood.
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The three materials are rather similar except that silimanite and andalusite can be used raw while kyanite needs to be calcinated above 1350°C at which temperature it expands by 17%.
1. Refractories 1987
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The fire on the outside calcinated the greater part of the façade, the north tower and the entire clerestory, with the flying buttresses and the turret crowning each of them.
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Belvidere this morning, having unguardedly applied too much caloric to the vessel containing the leg of mutton, the aqueous fluid in which it was immersed evaporated, and the viand became completely calcinated.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various
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He was still piqued by the vast sense of purpose which Blake carried somewhere deep within his seemingly tepid-willed carcass, like the calcinated pearl at the center of an oyster.
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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At this hour, as usual, the calcinated rocks, the sun-burnt branches, and the dry weeds faded into the semi-obscurity of the shadows.
The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912
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Another home cure for tarnished brass and other metals is a mixture of whiting, four pounds; cream of tartar, one quarter pound; and calcinated magnesia, three ounces.
The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907
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It was a silence whose mighty influence was like the stillness that comes after the haughty steps and heavy tramp of cycles and centuries have crushed the nations, ground their temples to dust, broken the scepters of kings, calcinated cast-iron dynasties, corroded and gnawed asunder empires of brass and monarchies of steel.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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Page 96 feet, kings lay their scepters in his path, and monarchs pile the ashes of their shattered thrones and the dust of their empires upon his calcinated highway.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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