Calcine

Definition of Calcine

Cal`cine´

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Calciden ; p. pr. & vb. n. Calcining.]
	1.	To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
	2.	To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
	1.	To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.

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