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crepitate

VERB
  1. make a crackling sound
    My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl

How To Use crepitate In A Sentence

  • Heated to rednefs for half an hour, it does not decrepitate, but lofes 45 per ct. of its weight. Elements of Mineralogy: By Richard Kirwan, ...
  • The salt decrepitated
  • Furthermore, much marcasite is highly unstable when exposed to the atmosphere and decrepitates quickly.
  • Two thoufand one hundred and eighty-eight grains of very pure and dry (but not decrepitated) common fait, prepared in large cryftals, were diffolved in 6362 grains of diftilled water of the temperature 55°. Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ..
  • John Grisham’s sentences thud and crepitate all over the page, and he has become a literary tycoon. The Fiddler in the Subway
  • The oncoming mobile reconnaissance unit closed in as the immense gears and supports shafts crepitated while the great metal gates rose forth.
  • The rock is so thoroughly altered it decrepitates on exposure to the atmosphere.
  • I remember sitting in despair as I felt my ribs crepitate with every breath.
  • decrepitate salts
  • The first two are evident, as when it fuses it runs into a globule; the last, by inspecting it before and after the heating with a magnifying glass; sometimes it froths up when heated, and is then said to "intumesce;" or, if it flies to fragments, "decrepitates. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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