decrepitate

How to use decrepitate in a sentence

• Placed on burning coals, they decrepitate on drying, and produce a species of explosion or detonation.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I | Arnold Cooley

• Pliny had just reason to add, that nitrum otherwise does not properly decrepitate.

  A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume II (of 2) | Johann Beckman

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 | Various