calcine

  1. Verb.  (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.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) to undergo such heating.

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