calcination

English

Etymology

calcine +‎ -ation

Noun

calcination (countable and uncountable, plural calcinations)

The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
Synonym: lime burning

Translations

the process of calcining

Czech: kalcinace f
Finnish: pasutus (fi)
French: calcination (fr)
Galician: calcinación (gl) f
Greek: απασβέστωση (el) f (apasvéstosi)
Italian: calcinazione (it) f
Japanese: 煆焼 (かしょう, kashō)、焼成 (ja) (しょうせい, shōsei)
Portuguese: calcinação (pt) m
Russian: кальцина́ция (ru) f (kalʹcinácija)
Spanish: calcinación f, calcinamiento (es) m
Ukrainian: кальцинація f (kalʹcynacija)

Further reading

Calcination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lime kiln on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kal.si.na.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

calcination f (plural calcinations)

calcination

Related terms

Further reading

“calcination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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