[f. CALCINE v. + -ED1.] Reduced to dry powder or ash by burning; subjected to the thorough action of fire; purged by fire.

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1583.  Plat, Divers New Exper. (1594), 37. Weigh out of this calcined coppresse one part.

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1605.  Timme, Quersit., II. i. 105. Salts may be extracted out of all calcined metalls.

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1732.  Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 264. Calcin’d Hartshorn, which has something of this Quality.

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1810.  Henry, Elem. Chem. (1826), I. 619. Pure magnesia … is … prepared by the calcination of the carbonate, and hence its name of calcined magnesia.

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1870.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 3), xi. 301. When a decoction of meat is effectually screened from ordinary air, and supplied solely with calcined air, putrefaction never sets in.

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1876.  Routledge, Discov., 28. The calcined ore is then ready for the blast furnace.

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