pulverizableadj.
/ˈpʌlvərʌɪzəbl/, U.S. /ˈpəlvəˌraɪzəb(ə)l/ Capable of being pulverized or reduced to powder.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [adjective] > powdery or dusty > made powdery > able to be
pulverable1617
triturable1646
powderable1650
pulverizable1659
1659 G. Starkey Note 8 Sept. in W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire (1994) 248 I put this day into above a quart of it about..ii 1/4 of saffron the best English, dry and pulverisable, & I set it in a retort in a distilling heat.
1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. I. ii. 30 The white, crystalline, pulverizable Arsenic..is such a strong poison.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. x. 454 An earthy pulverizable matter.
1838 Times 16 Aug. 6/6 This gentleman also said that the bones, when handled, were converted into pulverizable matter.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 18/2 Tin becomes pulverisable..at high temperatures.
1943 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 13 May 8/3 Further, he found, this scutellum was less oily than the rest of the germ and, especially when dry, was more pulverizable.
1992 Thin Solid Films 221 44 Suitable pulverizable source solutions have been adapted to the weakly reactive silicon precursors and the highly reactive titanium precursors.
2001 J. Franzen Corrections 267 The dried patches had the texture of rice paper... They were agreeably dislodgable and pulverizable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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