Calcine
Calcine , intransitive verb
[French calciner, from Latin calx, calcis, lime. See Calx.]
1.
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.
2.
To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
Calcine , intransitive verb
To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat.
Calcining without fusion