Word Finder - pulverized

definition

To render into dust or powder.

definition

To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.

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To defeat soundly, thrash.

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To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.

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the stone pulverises easily

To enable the soil to grow good crops the upper layer must be pulverized and weathered.

The upper layer of the soil must therefore be free from weeds, finely pulverized and stocked with a readily-available supply of nutriment.

Lana's condo community was pulverized.

For example, pulverized fuel ash from power generation is widely used today.

If the soil is allowed to become dry and pulverized, rain is likely to run off or " puddle the surface without penetrating it more than a very short distance.

After this treatment the upper 2 or 3 in, of soil are well pulverized, and fertilizers added, usually, to prevent reintroduction of seeds of weeds, in the form of guano or chemical manures.

It's mostly made from pulverized powdered fruits, with similar products in the line made from powdered beans, vegetables and fruit.

From this has arisen another popular error, which attributes extraordinary curative properties to its flesh when dried and pulverized.

In 1791 France was pulverized into innumerable administrative atoms incapable of cohesion; and the result was that Paris became more than ever the brain and nerve-centre of France.

In England, Kimmeridge Clay, Lias clays, London Clay and pulverized shale and slate are all employed for this purpose.

There are many proven technologies available today for reducing air pollutant emissions from pulverized coal fired power plant.

Users who cannot access other forms of cocaine will sometimes inject the pulverized rocks.

Basically it involves soil amelioration for slag waste sites, coal shale waste, builders rubble and pulverized fuel ash.

Again, the main technology used is pulverized coal combustion with subcritical steam.

It's impossible to discuss volcanoes and not discuss the properties of volcanic ash -- rock that has literally been pulverized into dust or sand by volcanic activity.

They are crushed to egg-size in a rock-breaker, and pulverized to pass a 40-mesh sieve in a California stamp-mill, which treats in 24 hours about 3 tons per stamp. A 10-stamp mill is fed by one rock-breaker, and discharges the liquid pulp into 10-15 wooden settling tanks, 9 by 5 by 8 ft., the settled contents of which are shovelled out and charged into the pans.

In the Cazo, Caldron or Hot process the pulverized silver ore is boiled in a copper-bottomed wooden vat, first with brine until the silver has been reduced by the copper, and then with quicksilver.

Although the presence of 1.50% of manganese makes steel relatively brittle, and although a further addition at first increases this brittleness, so that steel containing between 4 and 5.5% can be pulverized under the hammer, yet a still further increase gives very great ductility, accompanied by great hardness-a combination of properties which was not possessed by any other known substance when this remarkable alloy, known as Hadfield's manganese steel, was discovered.