calcine

Meanings

Verb

• 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; to calcinate.
• To undergo such heating.

Noun

• Something calcined; material left over after roasting or burning.

Origin

• From Middle English, from Medieval Latin calcināre, an alchemical term meaning "to burn like lime", "to reduce to calx".