Definition of Decrepitates

1. decrepitate [v] - See also: decrepitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrepitates

decremental conduction
decrementation
decremented
decrementing
decrements
decreolization
decreolizations
decreolize
decreolized
decreolizes
decreolizing
decrepid
decrepit
decrepitate
decrepitated
decrepitates (current term)
decrepitating
decrepitation
decrepitations
decrepitaton
decrepitatons
decrepitly
decrepitness
decrepitude
decrepitudes
decrepity
decrescendi
decrescendo
decrescendoed
decrescendoing

Literary usage of Decrepitates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1850)
"... deep-red, oblique, rectangular prisms ; blackens by exposure to the atmosphere ; decrepitates slightly when heate.l ¡ and fuses at from 140° to 150° C. ..."

2. Tables for the Determination of Common Minerals Chiefly by Their Physical by William Otis Crosby (1895)
"BB fuses and gives coating of Sn02 on charcoal; decrepitates ; sulphur fumes. BB decrepitates and fuses to a globule, evolving sulphu rous and arsenical ..."

3. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science by Samuel Haughton (1861)
"In the forceps decrepitates, and fuses readily into a very fluid globule, transparent while hot, ... Docs not effervesce with acid ; decrepitates violently. ..."

4. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal geological society of Ireland (1862)
"On charcoal decrepitates ; but if slowly heated, it melts, and emits a faint ... On charcoal it decrepitates violently ; reduced to powder, and moistened, ..."

5. The Blowpipe Vade Macum: The Blowpipe Characters of Minerals : Deduced from by Aquilla Smith, Samuel Haughton, Robert Henry Scott (1862)
"In the forceps decrepitates, and fuses readily into a very fluid globule, transparent while hot, ... Does not effervesce with acid; decrepitates violently. ..."

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