Associations to the word «Calcination»

Wiktionary

CALCINATION, noun. The process of calcining - heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.

Dictionary definition

CALCINATION, noun. The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne