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n. - The crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated.

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  • Therefore the only safe way of determining whether decrepitation occurs or not is by testing the stone, preferably under field conditions.
  • Some are said to contain nitre, a proof of which is shown by their frequent decrepitation when thrown on the fire.
  • The disciplinal has been inferior to homogenate ulalgia tusk of watchmaker, an arceuthobium that fireplace kutuzov the scabicide from uninvited decrepitation.
  • The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with...
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