calcine

From Medieval Latin calcināre, an alchemical term meaning "to burn like lime", "to reduce to calx".[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælsɪn/, /ˈkælsaɪn/

calcine (third-person singular simple present calcines, present participle calcining, simple past and past participle calcined)

1. (transitive) to heat something without melting in order to drive off water etc., and to decompose carbonates into oxides or to oxidize or reduce it; especially to heat limestone to form quicklime, i.e. to calcinate.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XI:

     [...] "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."

2. (intransitive) to undergo such heating

• calcein, laccine

• Homophones: calcinent, calcines

calcine

1. first-person singular present indicative of calciner
2. third-person singular present indicative of calciner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of calciner
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of calciner
5. second-person singular imperative of calciner

calcine f

1. plural of calcina

calcine

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of calcinar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of calcinar
3. first-person singular imperative of calcinar
4. third-person singular imperative of calcinar

calcine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calcinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of calcinar.