Crossword-Solution: CALCINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Calcine | v. i. | 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. |
| Calcine | v. i. | To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx. |
| Calcine | v. i. | To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CALCINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Oxidize by heating. | 1 answer |
| REFINE by consuming grosser part | 1 answer |
| frit | 2 answers |
| desiccate | 8 answers |
| Refine | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CALCINE (5)
The chymist, that himself doth still, Let him but tast this limbecks bill, And prove this sublimated bowl, He'll swear it will calcine a soul.
The wood-men were overcome with fear when they beheld these three horrible phantoms run, and, not much relishing the company of Alboufaki, stood aghast at the command of Carathis to set forward, notwithstanding it was noon, and the heat fierce enough to calcine even rocks.
The use of petroleum in the most terrible conflagrations of our own time—those of the Commune in 1871, for instance—did calcine and disintegrate stone, but I know of no case of vitrification.
What's that? A Lullianist? a Ripley? Filius artis? Can you sublime and dulcify? calcine? Know you the sapor pontic? sapor stiptic? Or what is homogene, or heterogene? ANA.
The scientific men of the country have made several attempts to calcine this earth, mistaking it for the porcelain earth proceeding from decomposed strata of feldspar.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–1958).