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Calcine vs Calcite - What's the difference?

calcine | calcite |

As a verb calcine

is .

As an adjective calcine

is calcinated.

As a noun calcite is

(geology) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, caco3, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

calcine

English

Verb

  • 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
  • to undergo such heating

    • Anagrams

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    calcite

    English

    (wikipedia calcite)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found as limestone, chalk and marble

    • Derived terms

    * ferro-calcite * manganocalcite * plumbocalcite * silico-borocalcite