Dictionary Entry
calcine
calcine is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
- 3intransitive verb
To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
- 4verb
heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
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