decrepitate

How To Use decrepitate In A Sentence

• On heating in a closed tube it decrepitates slightly, blackens and gives off water having an alkaline reaction.
• The crystals are in the form of small cubes and contain no water of crystallization; some water is, however, held in cavities in the crystals and causes the salt to decrepitate when heated. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
• 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 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
• decrepitate salts
• The rock is so thoroughly altered it decrepitates on exposure to the atmosphere.
• 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 ..
• Furthermore, much marcasite is highly unstable when exposed to the atmosphere and decrepitates quickly.
• The salt decrepitated