Decrepitated vs Decrepitate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between decrepitated and decrepitate

is that decrepitated is (decrepitate) while decrepitate is to roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.

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(decrepitate)

(decrepitat)

To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Folio 2007, p. 333:

so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated ; and so also in a pot of Snow.

Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.

(decrepitat)

To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Folio 2007, p. 333:

so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated ; and so also in a pot of Snow.

Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.