"decrepitate" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio, published 2007, page 333",
          "text": "so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated; and so also in a pot of Snow.",
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        "To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire."
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        "(transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire."
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          "text": "That substance was called salt, because, according to some authors, it is obtained by the action of the sun (sol) on sea-water, according to others, because it decrepitates in the fire (exsilire=to crackle and spring about).",
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        "(intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles."
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈkɹɛpɪteɪt/"
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