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Hastily, he scraped a flat-edged scalpel along a tissue sample, hoping for maximum abrasion, and triturated the results.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

Its union with the vegetable acid, when triturated with manna, is said to compose Keyser's Pill.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

If a hard rock is met with, it is first triturated by an iron rod, and the materials being thus reduced to small fragments or powder, are readily extracted.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Preparation.—The purified Paraffin is triturated in the usual way.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The loess is a solid but friable earth of brownish-yellow colour, and when triturated with water is not unlike loam, but differs from the latter by its highly porous and tubular structure.

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