triturate

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The product of the calcination of equal parts of lead and tin 2 parts, carbonate of soda 1 part, antimonic acid 1 part, rub together, or triturate, and melt.

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

Just as the fish swallow stones to aid the digestion, we need the accidents and frictions of life to triturate our moral pabulum, and render it more easily assimilable to our constitutions.

From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Lever, Charles James

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 Young, Daniel

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 Smith, David Eugene

Place it in a mortar with 18 grams of potassium iodide and triturate with small portions of water until all is dissolved.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Talbot, Henry P.