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Comminution   Listen
noun
Comminution  n.  
1.
The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
2.
(Surg.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
3.
Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. "Natural and necessary comminution of our lives."






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"Comminution" Quotes from Famous Books



... debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs[obs3], magistery[obs3], fine powder; flocculi[Lat]. smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke, volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm. [Reduction to powder] pulverization, comminution[obs3], attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction[obs3], contusion, trituration[Chem], levigation[obs3], abrasion, detrition, multure[obs3]; limitation; tripsis[obs3]; filing &c.v.. [Instruments for pulverization] mill, arrastra[obs3], gristmill, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... retain'd, though afterwards I so encreased the Fire as to bring it to Fusion. And, besides Camphire, there are divers other Bodies (that I elsewhere name) in which the heat in close Vessels is not wont to make any separation of Heterogeneities, but only a comminution of Parts, those that rise first being Homogeneal with the others, though subdivided into smaller Particles: whence Sublimations have been stiled, The Pestles of the Chymists. But not here to mention what I elsewhere take notice of, concerning common Brimstone ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle



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