- (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
- (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance or rendering it friable by the action of heat, especially 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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