verb · transitive · rare

calcine

calc·ine

calcine · calcines · calcined · calcining

кальцинировать, обжечь, обжигать, прокаливать

calcinieren, kalzinieren, ausglühen, brennen

To heat to remove its impurities and refine itTo heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.

UK/ˈkælsaɪn/US/ˈkælˌsaɪn/

Meaning

6 senses

(historical, transitive)To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.
heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces
(physical, transitive)To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.
calcinieren, kalzinieren, ausglühen
кальцини́роватьkalʹcinírovatʹ, обже́чьobžéčʹ, обжига́тьobžigátʹ
(broadly, transitive)To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.
(figuratively, transitive)To purify or refine (something).
(figuratively, transitive)To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).
(intransitive, physical)Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.

Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

to heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it:

Origin

The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (somet

The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (something) until it turns to powder; to change the nature of (something) by heating”) [and other forms], from Old French calciner (modern French calciner (“to calcinate; to calcine”)) and from its etymon Medieval Latin calcināre (“(alchemy) to burn like lime; to reduce to calx”), from Late Latin calcīna (“inorganic material containing calcium, lime”) + -āre (suffix forming present active infinitive forms of verbs). Calcīna is derived from Latin calcis, the genitive singular of calx (“chalk; limestone”), possibly from Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx, “small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble”); further etymology unknown, possibly Pre-Greek.

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