décrépiter

CONT: Décrépiter du sel, le calciner jusqu'à ce qu'il ne crépite plus dans le feu.
OBS: Ce terme peut être utilisé comme verbe transitif ou comme verbe intransitif.

CONT: 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.
OBS: This verb can be used transitively or intransitively.