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triturate

[trich-uh-reyt, trich-er-it] / ˈtrɪtʃ əˌreɪt, ˈtrɪtʃ ər ɪt /
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pulverize
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When a paradoxer parades capital letters and diagrams which are as good as Newton's to all who know nothing about it, some persons wonder why science does not rise and triturate the whole thing.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith

Subsulphate of iron, 1 part; oxide of zinc, 1 part; flux No. 2, 5 parts; triturate without melting.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Yellow ochre, No. 244, 15 parts; oxide of cobalt, 1 part; triturate and calcine in a crucible until it has the desired tone.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Green oxide of chromium, 1 part; oxide of cobalt, 2 parts; triturate, and melt at a high heat.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young

Empty the sample of soil into the mortar and triturate thoroughly.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

Miss Rosa, being a woman, must raise the lid, and gave a slight shiver at the innocent looking triturates.

From Rolling Stones by O. Henry

The author already quoted believes that the Pompilius seizes its captive by the pedicle which unites the abdomen to the cephalothorax, and that it triturates this point between its jaws.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

Of pan concentrators there is an enormous selection, the principle in most being similar—i.e., a revolving muller, which triturates the sand, so freeing the tiny golden particles and admitting of their contact with the mercury.

From Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Frances) Johnson

Hastily, he scraped a flat-edged scalpel along a tissue sample, hoping for maximum abrasion, and triturated the results.

From The New Yorker Feb. 29, 2016

If a hard rock is met with, it is first triturated by an iron rod, and the materials being thus reduced to small fragments or powder, are readily extracted.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

Preparation.—There are two kinds of renal calculi, the phosphatic and the uric, which should be triturated as separate preparations.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

The wheat berry being broken up and triturated in one operation, the flour necessarily contained a large proportion of branny particles in which cerealin, an active diastasic constituent, was present in very sensible proportions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

PREPARATION.—The insect is triturated with sugar of milk in the usual way.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Then, triturating its substance between his fingers, he applied his nose to the product and sniffed critically.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

It may be prepared by heating cuprous sulphide with sulphur, or triturating cuprous sulphide with cold strong nitric acid, or as a dark brown precipitate by treating a copper solution with sulphuretted hydrogen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

He stopped triturating some shavings of hard tobacco between his 24 huge palms, and sat quietly, hands clasped, as though in prayer.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

A palatable but slightly aperient beverage is prepared by triturating the fruits in water, and adding sugar and mandiocca flour.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders

They do not seem hard enough to resist the triturating power of the gizzard of a gallinaceous bird, though they must resist that of some other birds; for the skin is as hard as ivory.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin




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