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calcination

Calcination is a 11 letter word which starts with the letter C and ends with the letter N for which we found 2 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance or rendering it friable by the action of heat esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
(n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
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