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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cal·ci·na·tion /ˌkælsəˈneʃən/
 鍛燒,灼熱,燒礦法

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 cal·ci·na·tion /ˌkælsəˈneʃən/ 名詞
 灰化,煆燒,煆燒產物,灰化物,脫水物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cal·ci·na·tion n.
 1. Chem. 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.
 2. The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 calcination
      n : the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of
          heating to a high temperature