re-calcine, v.
(riːkælˈsaɪn)
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To calcine again. Also fig.
| 1635 Quarles Embl. ii. xv. (1818) 129 So, now the soul's sublim'd; her sour desires Are re-calcin'd in Heaven's well-temper'd fires. 1662 Merrett tr. Neri's Art of Glass i. xxv, Powder it [brass] again, serce it fine, and re-calcine it. 1758 Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 376 As it would have been too tedious to re-calcine them all separately, he made four parcels of the whole. 1860 Tomlinson Arts & Manuf. Ser. ii. Sugar 28 It [charcoal] is then taken to the retort⁓house and re-calcined, a process which restores all its valuable properties. |