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Definition of Pulverable
1. a. Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
Definition of Pulverable
1. Adjective. Capable of being reduced to fine powder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulverable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulverable
Literary usage of Pulverable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pleasant Pages for Young People, Or, Book of Home Education and Entertainment by Samuel Prout Newcomb (1853)
"W. Not all things are pulverable, though. Butter is not; nor Indian rubber; nor
lead. I never saw any powdered lead. Now, may I count up the flint's ..."
2. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1846)
"... which does not completely prevent the access of air, it loses, in a short
time, its pulverable properties, and passes into the state of a viscous mass. ..."
3. The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.: Abridged by Robert Boyle (1725)
"... turned into confinent and pulverable bodies: it is not therefore imponible,
... of its fluidity, ib as to make it pulverable ; why may not nature OP art ..."
4. Lessons on Common Things: For the Use of Schools and Families. On the Basis by Elizabeth Mayo, John Frost (1857)
"Ideas to be developed by this lesson,—indigenous, pulverable. Qualities. It is
pungent, dull. yellow, opaque. hard, dry. pulverable. natural. indigenous. ..."
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