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Pulverization

noun
1.
A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized.  Synonyms: powder, pulverisation.
2.
The act of grinding to a powder or dust.  Synonyms: grind, mill, pulverisation.
3.
Annihilation by pulverizing something.  Synonym: pulverisation.






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"Pulverization" Quotes from Famous Books



... august institutions hold it in its place, how flat does evangelical Protestantism appear, how bare the atmosphere of those isolated religious lives whose boast it is that "man in the bush with God may meet."[304] What a pulverization and leveling of what a gloriously piled-up structure! To an imagination used to the perspectives of dignity and glory, the naked gospel scheme seems to offer an almshouse ...
— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... rocks which constitute the earth's crust. Soil is in fact only pulverized and altered rock. The forces that produce soil from rocks are of two distinct classes, physical and chemical. The physical agencies of soil production merely cause a pulverization of the rock; the chemical agencies, on the other hand, so thoroughly change the essential nature of the soil particles that they are no longer like the rock from ...
— Dry-Farming • John A. Widtsoe

... volcanic ash soils of the West are made sufficiently fine without great labor. Clay soils may call for the free use of the harrow and roller used in some sort of alternation before they are sufficiently pulverized. Excessive fineness in pulverization of these soils is also to be guarded against in rainy climates, lest they run together, but this condition is present far ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw



Words linked to "Pulverization" :   pulverize, powder, crush, crunch, obliteration, annihilation, compaction, solid, grind



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