0 past simple and past participle of pulverize
1 to press or crush something until it becomes powder or a soft mass:
Rock samples were pulverized using a heavy-duty hydraulic rock splitter, jaw crusher and swing mill.
The interior of the tube was filled with loosely packed pulverized cork, thereby eliminating natural convection heat transfer to the interior.
Prior to geochemical analyses, all samples were chipped and pulverized (200 mesh).
In the absence of gravel deposits, roads outside the shell ridge area are often surfaced with pulverized shell material.
The laser pulverized the target into a powder of fine fragments 0.1 mm before significant melting or vaporization could occur.
The result of this dissolution was understood as pulverized metal and a mixture based on the interlocking of the absorbing acid and the dissolved substance.
Accordingly, the chemical substance first referred to as "salt of iron" would now be called a solidified or "coagulated dissolution," consisting of the pulverized metal and the acid.
The laser interaction pulverized this meteorite sample.
