Calcine vs Sinter - What's the difference?
calcine | sinter |
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
(geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
* 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , Volume 23,
* 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,
A mass formed by sintering.
* 2008 , John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering ,
A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
* 1980 , '', in ''Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study ,
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As verbs the difference between calcine and sinter
is that calcine is 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 while sinter is to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.As a noun sinter is
an alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.calcine
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(en noun)- That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter , thrown down by thermal springs,
- It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter .
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- Consider a copper sinter' material with spherical ' sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
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(en verb)- Most, if not all, metals may be sintered .
