Baking vs. Calcination — What's the Difference?

Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked.

Calcination refers to heating (thermal treatment of) a solid chemical compound (e.g. carbonate ores) to high temperatures in absence or limited supply air or oxygen (O2), generally for the purpose of removing impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition.The root of the word calcination refers to its most prominent use, which is to remove carbon from limestone through combustion to yield calcium oxide (quicklime).

To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.

To heat (a substance) to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point, causing loss of moisture or volatile impurities, reduction or oxidation, and the decomposition of carbonates and other compounds.

To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven

To convert (liquid material, especially radioactive wastes) to granular solids by drying at very high temperatures.

To cook food with dry heat.

To be calcined.

To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.

A substance produced by calcining.

The act or process of baking.

The process of calcining: heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.

An amount baked.

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.

A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.

Present participle of bake.

The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature

That bakes.

(figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.

An action in which something is baked.

The way in which something is baked.

(countable) The production of a batch of baked product.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread.

Making bread or cake or pastry etc.

Cooking by dry heat in an oven

As hot as if in an oven