Cracking

(noun.) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process).

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• Then the bridge blew and one horse snapped his halter when he rose and jerked his head at the cracking roar and he went off through the trees. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• With that second shot came the cracking boom of grenades from around the corner below the bridge. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The nutcracker (Fig. 101) is an illustration of a double lever of the wheelbarrow kind; the nearer the nut is to the fulcrum, the easier the cracking. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• It's a family business, sir, says George, cracking filberts. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• At that moment there was a cracking noise, and his figure fell into fragments like a pack of cards. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Then they both laughed, and began cracking nuts, and spitting the shells about. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The gun was firing now with the rocket whish and the cracking, dirt-spouting boom. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• To avoid cracking the vial by exposure to such sudden heat use a thin green glass vial and hold it in the steam for a few seconds before immersing it in the hot water. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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