CPage 23
- English Word Calcimining Definition of Calcimine
- English Word Calcinable Definition That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
- English Word Calcinate Definition To calcine.
- English Word Calcination Definition 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.
- English Word Calcination Definition The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
- English Word Calcinatory Definition A vessel used in calcination.
- English Word Calcine Definition 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.
- English Word Calcine Definition To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
- English Word Calcine Definition To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
- English Word Calciner Definition One who, or that which, calcines.
- English Word Calcining Definition of Calcine
- English Word Calcispongiae Definition An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.
- English Word Calcite Definition Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
- English Word Calcitrant Definition Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.
- English Word Calcitrate Definition To kick.
- English Word Calcitration Definition Act of kicking.
- English Word Calcium Definition An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
- English Word Calcivorous Definition Eroding, or eating into, limestone.
- English Word Calcographer Definition One who practices calcography.
- English Word Calcographic Definition Alt. of Calcographical