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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
calcine .
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This metal loses its malleability in proportion as it is heated: as soon as it melts it calcines, and greyish-colored ashes are formed on its surface; when returning from a fluid to a solid state, it is easily divided into small grains or powder, or formed into shot, &c.
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It is insipid; will not dissolve in water; and exposed to the fire, it neither consumes nor calcines.
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Limestone, however, calcines when subjected to fire and is, therefore, objected to by many engineers for building construction.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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Limestone calcines in a heat exceeding 1000° F., and therefore it cannot be used in fireproof construction.
Diggers in the Earth Eva March Tappan 1892
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To this they put fire, which in a little time spreads through the whole heap, and calcines the ore, which afterwards easily crumbles into
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TO see the evidence of marble, a body that is solid, having been formed of loose materials collected at the bottom of the sea, is not always easy, although it may be made abundantly plain; and to be convinced that this calcareous stone, which calcines so easily in our fires, should have been brought into fusion by subterraneous heat, without suffering calcination, must require a chain of reasoning which ever one is not able to attain.
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"The mouldering state of these hills is, doubtless, owing to the perpetual action of the sun, which calcines their surface.
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