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verb-transitive:
- To roast or calcine (crystals or salts) until they exude a crackling sound or until crackling stops.
- To roast or calcine to be able to trigger a crackling noise.
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verb-intransitive:
- To make a crackling noise when roasted.
- To crackle, as sodium in roasting.
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verb:
- To roast (a salt or mineral) until it prevents crackling in the fire.
- Of salts and minerals, to crackle whenever heated, suggesting a sudden break down of their particular particles.
- to roast or calcine to be able to cause to crackle or until crackling stops
- go through decrepitation and crackle
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others:
- To crackle, as sodium whenever roasting.
- To roast or calcine in a solid heat, to be able to trigger a continual bursting or crackling of material: as, to decrepitate salt.
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Definition for "decrepitate"
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