English Dictionary

decrepitate

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈkɹɛpɪteɪt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire. / (intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）塩や鉱物を火にかけ、パチパチと音がしなくなるまで焼くこと。 / （自動詞）塩や鉱物が熱せられると、急激な粒子の分解に伴いパチパチと音を発すること。

The chemist had to decrepitate the salt sample over an open flame before analysis.

分析の前に、化学者は塩の試料を炎の上でパチパチと音がしなくなるまで焙る必要があった。

意味（1）

(transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.

so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated; and so also in a pot of Snow.

意味（2）

(intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.

It is, however, remarkable, that the greater number of bodies which decrepitate, are really anhydrous and fixed, such as sulphate of potash, sulphate of barytes, chloride of sodium, &c.

decrepitates （ present singular third-person ）

decrepitating （ participle present ）

decrepitated （ participle past ）

decrepitated （ past ）