These additional connotations could mislead a reader upon first glance, and pulverisation is quite a technical word, hence the scare quotes in the heading and the elegant variation of “blow captives to atoms” in the sub-heading. From Wordnik.com. [The atomic theory of sub-headings] Reference
Certain types of earth still require screening after pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
As little actual dust as possible should be made during pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
It is therefore preferable to break down these agglomerates by a pulverisation operation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
In the rainbow and parrot fish they are highly specialised, otherwise the pulverisation of the hard shell of molluscs would be impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
I felt as prepared as one could be for some sort of catastrophic pulverisation to come my way, but in the event the process was subtler and long drawn out. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
We have already seen in the historical introduction that, according to Tull, the true and only function of manures was to aid in the pulverisation of the soil by fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
This pulverisation of the soil goes on in nature independently of the farmer, but only very slowly, and the farmer has therefore to hasten it on by means of tillage operations. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
This expression serves very well to show the importance of a thorough pulverisation of the soil; and the best results are certainly obtained. where this is energetically carried out. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Manures also, according to him, might be entirely dispensed with under his system of cultivation, for the true function of all manures is to aid in the pulverisation of the soil by fermentation. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
The article calls it pulverisation, which has a similar meaning to atomisation but can also commonly mean grinding or pounding, as in food preparation when one pulverises grains, herbs, or meat. From Wordnik.com. [The atomic theory of sub-headings] Reference
The process involves pulverisation of suitable roots and an elaborate succession of settling and filtration stages, and is extremely time consuming and labour intensive: full details are given in Shurtleff and Aoyagi. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
If a politician expresses admiration for Winston Churchill do you immediately think that he's a great fan of, among other considerations, casual indifference to the Bengal famine, the use of chemical weapons in Iraq or the pulverisation and total destruction of German cities?. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Hannan & Enoch Powell: Spectacular Media Stupidity Guaranteed] Reference
In the first place, it was a mean dodge to escape the absolute pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference
The extent of the injury to the bone varies infinitely, from a mere chip or gutter-shaped wound to complete pulverisation of the portion struck. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The weight upon the lower stories and the substructure was therefore enormous, even to the point of threatening destruction by sheer pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference
This criticism of the conditions of domestic service marks a beginning of true democracy, as distinguished from the mere pulverisation of aristocracy. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
Challis would never have noticed the glass, had not one larger atom that had escaped pulverisation, caught the light from the window and drawn his attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder] Reference
Instead it is too full of big gestures that squelch to dust human endeavour, quite literally in the case Roger Hiorns 'pulverisation of a passenger aircraft engine. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He moves over the subject with the passionless strength of a glacier; and the grinding of the rocks is not always without a counterpart in the logical pulverisation of the objector. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Thus the pulverisation proper to existence is vanquished by thought, which in a moment announces or commemorates other moments, together with the manner of their approach or recession. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
Geyer explains how only minute particles less than 1/10,000 of a millimetre in diameter are of any use to penetrate a mask, and he develops the difficulties experienced by Germany in obtaining such fine pulverisation without decomposing the substance. From Wordnik.com. [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference
To Burke, who idealised the traditional element in the British Constitution, and so attached an excessive importance to historical continuity, the new doctrine seemed to imply the breaking up of the very foundations of order and the pulverisation of society. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
A certain degree of fineness is reached, the absorptive power decreases with any further pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
51.a. purgation b. pulverisation c. detrition d. trituration Ans: (a). From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
One slip and 'boom', pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
The technique was known as pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Six Meat Buffet] Reference
Waste biomass: pulverisation, availability. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Soil pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [1.1. Forests] Reference
51.a. purgation b. pulverisation. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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