decrepitating

He could descant without end on sulphuric acid or decrepitating salts, on capacity for caloric or galvanic batteries, on steam-engines and hydraulic machines, on the discoveries of Davy or the conclusions of

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

A bubble of white vapor rose and escaped, with a decrepitating noise, at each ascent of the lava -- tossing up red-hot fragments of scoria, which continued dancing up and down with a sort of rhythmic play upon the surface.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877