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  • verb Present participle of triturate.

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Examples

  • For were they not to do so, but to retain it for a time while triturating the food, the water would run into their digestive cavities.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • The Grusonwek Ball Mills, made by Krupp of Germany, also that made by the Austral Otis Company, Melbourne, are fast and excellent crushing triturating appliances for either wet or dry working, but are specially suited only for ores when the gold is fine and evenly distributed in the stone.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • To begin with, they are roasted to get rid of the sulphur, arsenic, etc., which would interfere with the amalgamation or lixiviation, and then either ground to impalpable fineness in one of the many triturating pans with mercury, or treated by chlorine or potassium cyanide.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • I was lately consulted with respect to the treatment of a pyritic ore in a very promising mine, but could not recommend the above treatment, because though the pyrites in the gangue was similar, the bulk of the lode consisted of silica, consequently there would be a great waste of power in triturating the whole of the stuff to what, with regard to much of it, would be an unnecessary degree of fineness.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • Alcohol; or if solid and dry, by reducing it to powder and triturating (rubbing) it in a mortar with pure sugar or Sugar of Milk.

    An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time

  • Of means for crushing or triturating quartz there is no lack, and every year gives us fresh inventions for the purpose, each one better than that which preceded it, according to its inventor.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • Birds of prey, and others subsisting mostly or entirely on animal food, have thin, membranous, and comparatively flabby gizzards; while those living on hard grains and seeds have extremely thick, powerful, and muscular ones, -- those capable of crushing up and thoroughly triturating all the food they take into their crops.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • Then, triturating its substance between his fingers, he applied his nose to the product and sniffed critically.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • The question as to whether the stomach acted as a grinding or triturating organ, rather than as a receptacle for chemical action, had been settled by Réaumur and was no longer a question of general dispute.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • Let a paste be prepared by triturating 4 oz. of sulphate of iron (green vitriol) calcined to whiteness, and let half an ounce of acetite of copper (verdigris) be well incorporated together with the above decoction into a mass, throwing in also 3 oz. of coarse brown sugar and 6 oz. of gum Senegal, or Arabic.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

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