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to calcine limestone

to calcine limestone

9.9
To heat limestone strongly to make lime by removing carbon dioxide
  • verb
  • Specialized
translation icon : calcinación de la piedra caliza
  • During the manufacturing process, workers must calcine limestone at high temperatures to obtain pure lime.

Examples

  • They will calcine limestone in the furnace to produce lime for the construction project.

  • The process to calcine limestone involves removing carbon dioxide by heating it significantly.

  • Ovens for calcining limestone.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

to calcine
vsto calcine limestone
  • Specialized
1 9.9

Heat a material strongly to drive off unwanted parts and change it

is the same heating used on a specific carbonate rock to release carbon dioxide

How Hot

to calcine limestone
  • Specialized
9.9
to heat
298 1.0

Surface Forms

calcine limestone infinitive
calcined limestone past
calcined limestone past participle
calcining limestone present participle
calcines limestone third person singular

Morphology

calcine + limestone

The verb 'calcine' means to heat a substance to change its chemical composition, and 'limestone' names the calcium-carbonate rock; putting them together straightforwardly yields 'heat limestone to alter its composition (produce lime)'. This is a regular verb + object composition with a directly derivable technical meaning, so a learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Calcine limestone comes from the old practice of heating limestone in very hot ovens until the rock breaks down and gives off a gas. Picture big ovens where the white rock is 'cooked' and the gas called 'carbon dioxide' leaves, leaving lime behind, so the phrase means 'to heat limestone at high temperature to make lime'.