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Decrepitate (Verb)

To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

The chemist carefully monitored the salts as she decrepitated them in the lab to ensure their stability.
In order to create the perfect catalyst, the team had to decrepitate the metal oxides at high temperatures.
After the decrepitating process, the solid compounds showed improved crystalline structure.
Through careful decrepitation of the salts, the researchers discovered a dramatic reduction in particle size.
By slowly heating the powder to decrepitate the salts, the mixture's reactivity significantly decreased.

Undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

When heated, the borax began to decrepitate loudly, emitting a rhythmic crackling noise as it released its moisture.
As the crystals were subjected to increasing heat, they started to decrepitate and release their trapped gases.
On heating the salt mixture, it would decrepitate rapidly, giving off a sharp cracking sound as the crystals shattered.
The ammonium chloride began to decrepitate upon addition of the heating agent, disintegrating into smaller particles and emitting a crackling sound.
Overheating caused the sugar mixture to decrepitate vigorously, emitting a series of sharp crackles as it transformed into a brittle, caramelized substance.