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calcined

verb

Meaning

  1. 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, i.e. to calcinate.
  2. To undergo such heating
  3. Converted by calcination.
  4. Purified, refined.

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