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To roast or calcine (as salt) so as to cause crackling or until crackling stops.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - decrepitate

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Some minerals, when laid upon a hot plate, decrepitate, or fly to pieces, through the unequal expansion which overcomes the cohesion of the molecules. Calcite, fluorite, and barite are examples of this. A mineral which decrepitates may be separated from one which does not by decrepitating and sifting; the latter mineral will be found on the sieve, while that which was finely decrepitated will have gone through.  3, fiche 1, Anglais, - decrepitate

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This verb can be used transitively or intransitively.  4, fiche 1, Anglais, - decrepitate

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Français

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Éclater sous l’action de la chaleur.  1, fiche 1, Français, - d%C3%A9cr%C3%A9piter

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Décrépiter du sel, le calciner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne crépite plus dans le feu.  2, fiche 1, Français, - d%C3%A9cr%C3%A9piter

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Ce terme peut être utilisé comme verbe transitif ou comme verbe intransitif.  3, fiche 1, Français, - d%C3%A9cr%C3%A9piter

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Espagnol