decrepitate

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In an ignition tube decrepitates, yielding water and turning gray.

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Muffle furnaces are suitable for fine ores which are liable to decrepitate or sinter.

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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.

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The bulb is also a convenient little instrument for the purpose of heating those substances which phosphoresce, and likewise those salts that decrepitate.

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It decrepitates before the blowpipe, but when fused with some borax in a small hollow on a piece of wood charcoal, gives a globule of copper.

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