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verb

granulate v. t. (past & past part. granulated; pres. part. granulating)

To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.

To raise in granules or small asperities; to make rough on the surface.

Granulate v. i. To collect or be formed into grains; as, cane juice granulates into sugar.

adjective

Granulated, Granulate adj.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

Having numerous small elevations, as shagreen.

Granulated steel, a variety of steel made by a particular process beginning with the granulation of pig iron.

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Etymology of 'Granulate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sugar crop in Louisiana by a Frenchman named Bore in 1794. His indigo plant, once so profitable, had been attacked and destroyed by a worm, and dire poverty threatened. He conceived the project of planting sugar cane. The great question was would the syrup granulate; and hundreds gathered to watch the experiment. It did granulate, and the first product sold for twelve thousand dollars—a ...

— Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War • Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts