Decrepitated vs Decrepitates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between decrepitated and decrepitates

is that decrepitated is past tense of decrepitate while decrepitates is third-person singular of decrepitate.

(head)

(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.