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Calcined bone

Bone heated to above approximately 700°C, resulting in complete combustion of the organic component (collagen), leaving only mineral hydroxyapatite; characterised by white colour, extreme fragility, crazing, and 10 to 25 per cent dimensional shrinkage.

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