calcination

• These gates he described to be calcination, solution, separation, conjunction, putrefaction, congelation, cibation, sublimation, fermentation, exaltation, multiplication, and projection; to which he might have added botheration, the most important process of all. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• Here the object is to separate, first, the earthy matters and extraneous metals, by forming them into oxides by calcination: these are subsequently obtained as waste products in the form of slag; while the copper is left in combination with sulphur, which is then dispelled at one operation. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852
• By calcination, a greater degree of intensity may be imparted to the colour, and perhaps a little more solidity. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• When purified by calcination, it is termed pearlash. —  A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
• Some of the alchemists of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries taught that combustion and calcination are processes wherein the igneous principle is destroyed, using the word "destroyed" in its alchemical meaning. —  The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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