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trituration

[ trich-uh-rey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act of triturating.
the state of being triturated.
Pharmacology.
1. a mixture of a medicinal substance with sugar of milk, triturated to an impalpable powder.
2. any triturated substance.

trituration

/ ˌtrɪtjʊˈreɪʃən /

1640–50; < Late Latin trītūrātiōn- (stem of trītūrātiō ), equivalent to trītūrāt ( us ) threshed ( triturate ) + -ion -ion

The first decimal trituration was given in doses of two grains gradually increased to ten grains every two hours.

The sand of which they are composed is a silicious material, reduced to minute grains, generally rounded, by trituration.

Mercury combines readily with sulphur by trituration, and with it forms a black powder called Ethiops mineral.

Woven steel wire gauze is employed with good effect in some mills where especially fine trituration is required.

Raumur was thus led at first to consider digestion, in the gallinace, as pure and simple trituration.

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