Calcination is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CALCINATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of calcining
• 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.
• The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
• the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature
• the action of calcining; the reduction to an ashy substance via fire.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of calcining; the state of being calcined

Words related to CALCINATION

calcine11

Words that contain CALCINATION

calcinations16

How to use CALCINATION in a sentence

• Macie to believe that they consisted principally of silica, but that before calcination some vegetable matter must have been present.
• They had been collected for the purpose of undergoing the process of calcination.
• Before calcination it is of a grey colour, is not penetrable by water, and takes a polish.

Similar words containing CALCINA without suffix tion

calcinable16 calcinations16

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