Dictionary Entry
calcination
calcination is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
- 2noun
The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
- 3noun
the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature
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