Index of English words, starting with "ca"

(1) - Calcination (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
(2) - Calcination (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

(1) - Calcine (v. i.) To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
(2) - Calcine (v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
(3) - 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.

(1) - Calciner (n.) One who, or that which, calcines.

(1) - Calcite (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.