decrepitate
to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
to break up when exposed to heat.
Origin of decrepitate
1Other words from decrepitate
- de·crep·i·ta·tion, noun
Words Nearby decrepitate
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How to use decrepitate in a sentence
Placed on burning coals, they decrepitate on drying, and produce a species of explosion or detonation.
Pliny had just reason to add, that nitrum otherwise does not properly decrepitate.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2) | Johann BeckmanMuffle furnaces are suitable for fine ores which are liable to decrepitate or sinter.
British Dictionary definitions for decrepitate
/ (dɪˈkrɛpɪˌteɪt) /
(tr) to heat (a substance, such as a salt) until it emits a crackling sound or until this sound stops
(intr) (esp of a salt) to crackle, as while being heated
Origin of decrepitate
1Derived forms of decrepitate
- decrepitation, noun
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