Meaning & use
Calciner
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A furnace or industrial apparatus used to heat a substance to a high temperature in order to drive off moisture, decompose it, or oxidize it, without fully melting it.
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The cement plant's rotary calciner heats crushed limestone to prepare it for the kiln.
Engineers inspected the calciner after a drop in output suggested the refractory lining had worn thin.
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Calciners are central to industries like cement, alumina, and mineral processing, where "calcining" separates volatile compounds from solid ore.
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