Crossword-Solution: DECREPITATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decrepitate | v. t. | To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. |
| Decrepitate | v. i. | To crackle, as salt in roasting. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DECREPITATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CALCINE mineral or salt till it ceases to crackle in fire | 1 answer |
| CRACKLE under heat | 1 answer |
| crackle | 10 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MCEEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DECREPITATE (4)
The bulb is also a convenient little instrument for the purpose of heating those substances which phosphoresce, and likewise those salts that decrepitate.
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.
This _nitrum_ does not decrepitate nor fly out of the fire; however, the native variety swells up from within." The application of the word _chrysocolla_ (_chrysos_, gold; _colla_, solder) to soldering materials, and at the same time to the copper mineral, is of Greek origin.
Placed on burning coals, they decrepitate on drying, and produce a species of explosion or detonation.