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trituration

noun as in friction

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The first decimal trituration was given in doses of two grains gradually increased to ten grains every two hours.

The sand of which they are composed is a silicious material, reduced to minute grains, generally rounded, by trituration.

Mercury combines readily with sulphur by trituration, and with it forms a black powder called Ethiops mineral.

Woven steel wire gauze is employed with good effect in some mills where especially fine trituration is required.

Raumur was thus led at first to consider digestion, in the gallinace, as pure and simple trituration.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trituration, such as: agitation, erosion, irritation, resistance, abrasion, and attrition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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