Explore Calcination through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like oxidation or oxidization. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Calcination in a sentence
Calcination meaning
The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
Synonyms of Calcination
Using Calcination
- The main meaning on this page is: The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
- Useful related words include: oxidation, oxidization, oxidisation.
- In the example corpus, calcination often appears in combinations such as: calcination of.
Context around Calcination
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Calcination
- In this selection, "calcination" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, equilibrium, equilibrium and involves stand out and add context to how "calcination" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after calcination the flint and and then calcination which requires. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "calcination" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with calcination
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Calcination involves passing the waste through a heated, rotating tube. (10 words)
After calcination the flint pebbles were milled to a fine particle size. (12 words)
Calcination equilibrium Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world. (22 words)
The result was his famous memoir On the Nature of the Principle Which Combines with Metals during Their Calcination and Increases Their Weight, read to the Academy on 26 April 1775 (commonly referred to as the Easter Memoir). (38 words)
In the spring of 1774 Lavoisier carried out experiments on the calcination of tin and lead in sealed vessels which conclusively confirmed that the increase in weight of metals in combustion was due to combination with air. (37 words)
From the extraction of the raw material, he said the process of making cement begins with crushing the limestone and then calcination, which requires a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. (31 words)
Example sentences (7)
Calcination equilibrium Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world.
From the extraction of the raw material, he said the process of making cement begins with crushing the limestone and then calcination, which requires a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius.
After calcination the flint pebbles were milled to a fine particle size.
Calcination involves passing the waste through a heated, rotating tube.
He concluded that this was just a pure form of common air, and that it was the air itself "undivided, without alteration, without decomposition" which combined with metals on calcination.
In the spring of 1774 Lavoisier carried out experiments on the calcination of tin and lead in sealed vessels which conclusively confirmed that the increase in weight of metals in combustion was due to combination with air.
The result was his famous memoir On the Nature of the Principle Which Combines with Metals during Their Calcination and Increases Their Weight, read to the Academy on 26 April 1775 (commonly referred to as the Easter Memoir).
Common combinations with calcination
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- calcination of 2×